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| -rw-r--r-- | sos/utilities.py | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/sos/utilities.py b/sos/utilities.py index a3859f1c..cf079ff5 100644 --- a/sos/utilities.py +++ b/sos/utilities.py @@ -263,9 +263,14 @@ class TarFileArchive(Archive): tar_info.type = tarfile.DIRTYPE fileobj = None else: - fp = open(src, 'rb') - content = fp.read() - fp.close() + try: + fp = open(src, 'rb') + content = fp.read() + fp.close() + except: + # files with read permissions that cannot be read may exist + # in /proc, /sys and other virtual file systems. + content = "" tar_info.size = len(content) fileobj = StringIO(content) |