Fix filecmp test race condition for mtime.

aunzat · aunzat · commit b775c583b8c2 · 2023-09-16T22:57:40.000+02:00
Copy the file stat attributes for the shallow test file.
Otherwise it can happen that files compare equal
for shallow=True
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_filecmp.py b/Lib/test/test_filecmp.py
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ def setUp(self):
         with open(self.name_same_shallow , 'wb') as output:
             # same file size; but different content (i.e. all zero)
             output.write(bytes(len(data.encode())))
+        shutil.copystat(self.name_diff, self.name_same_shallow)
+
         self.dir = tempfile.gettempdir()
 
     def tearDown(self):
