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-rw-r--r--sos/archive.py10
-rw-r--r--tests/archive_tests.py6
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sos/archive.py b/sos/archive.py
index 4d9a4696..463c23b8 100644
--- a/sos/archive.py
+++ b/sos/archive.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import shlex
import re
import codecs
import sys
+import errno
# required for compression callout (FIXME: move to policy?)
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
@@ -209,7 +210,14 @@ class FileCacheArchive(Archive):
dest = self.dest_path(path)
self._check_path(dest)
if not os.path.exists(dest):
- os.mknod(dest, mode, device)
+ try:
+ os.mknod(dest, mode, device)
+ except OSError as e:
+ if e.errno == errno.EPERM:
+ msg = "Operation not permitted"
+ self.log_info("add_node: %s - mknod '%s'" % (msg, dest))
+ return
+ raise e
shutil.copystat(path, dest)
def _makedirs(self, path, mode=0o700):
diff --git a/tests/archive_tests.py b/tests/archive_tests.py
index dac02a04..febc96b4 100644
--- a/tests/archive_tests.py
+++ b/tests/archive_tests.py
@@ -39,6 +39,12 @@ class TarFileArchiveTest(unittest.TestCase):
self.check_for_file('test/tests/ziptest')
+ def test_add_node_dev_null(self):
+ st = os.lstat('/dev/null')
+ dev_maj = os.major(st.st_rdev)
+ dev_min = os.minor(st.st_rdev)
+ self.tf.add_node('/dev/null', st.st_mode, os.makedev(dev_maj, dev_min))
+
# when the string comes from tail() output
def test_add_string_from_file(self):
self.copy_strings = []