From b8d0daf78a3f87e7c98d77be769fdf3c5f31ae20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Bryn M. Reeves" <bmr@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 13:30:05 +0100
Subject: [archive] do not report IOError for virtual file systems

Ignore IO errors reported by /proc and /sys.

Signed-off-by: Bryn M. Reeves <bmr@redhat.com>
---
 sos/archive.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sos/archive.py b/sos/archive.py
index 55886c81..607312a7 100644
--- a/sos/archive.py
+++ b/sos/archive.py
@@ -169,7 +169,11 @@ class FileCacheArchive(Archive):
             try:
                 shutil.copy(src, dest)
             except IOError as e:
-                self.log_info("caught '%s' copying '%s'" % (e, src))
+                # Filter out IO errors on virtual file systems.
+                if src.startswith("/sys/") or src.startswith("/proc/"):
+                    pass
+                else:
+                    self.log_info("caught '%s' copying '%s'" % (e, src))
             try:
                 shutil.copystat(src, dest)
             except OSError:
-- 
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