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WinError 1 Incorrect Function when target dir can't accept symlinks but tempdir can

Open jaraco opened this issue 5 years ago • 1 comments

In tox-dev/tox#1706, I reported an issue where tox was unable to create a virtualenv for Python 3.5 when on a mounted file system from the host.

In that case, it seems that the test for "can symlink" happens on the local file system (and succeeds), but the attempt to create a symlink on the mounted filesystem fails.

The issue was only triggered in virtualenv creation on Python 3.5 (not 3.9) as seemingly symlinks are only needed for older Pythons.

jaraco avatar Oct 21 '20 13:10 jaraco

I've just run into this on Python 3.6. Works fine on 3.7 so I think this is now isolated to EOL versions of Python.

domdfcoding avatar Sep 21 '22 16:09 domdfcoding

PR welcome.

gaborbernat avatar Jan 13 '23 17:01 gaborbernat

We no longer support these EOL pythons.

gaborbernat avatar Jun 27 '23 03:06 gaborbernat