An InsufficientPrivilegesError exception is needed about psutil

[giampaolo]

From [email protected] on February 23, 2009 09:54:35

You can wrap the call to get_process_info() in deproxy() and just raise the 
from there. That would be easier than having to write the exception into the C 
for every platform like we had to do for NoSuchProcess exceptions.

Status: Accepted
Owner: billiejoex

[giampaolo]

From [email protected] on February 24, 2009 05:00:53

Committed as r154 which adds an InsufficientPermission error class in psutil.py 
"wrap_privileges" decorator around get_process_info() and kill() methods, which
translates system-dependent exceptions signaling insufficient permissions into
InsufficientPermission's psutil exception.


Open issues:

- Do we want an alternative name for InsufficientPermission (e.g.
InsufficientPermissionError, NoSuchPermission/Error, AccessDenied/Error)?

- More test cases would be needed. I've only added a test case for posix 
based on os.getuid() > 0 to make sure that InsufficientPermission is raised 
limited user attempts to kill PID 1 (init), but there are currently no test 
Windows.

[giampaolo]

From [email protected] on February 24, 2009 09:25:29

Status: Started

[giampaolo]

From [email protected] on February 24, 2009 14:14:06

Per conversation with Jay renamed InsufficientPermission in AccessDenied.

[giampaolo]

From [email protected] on February 24, 2009 14:16:36

Labels: Milestone-0.1.1

[giampaolo]

From [email protected] on February 25, 2009 06:56:44

Is this one done now? I think we can close this out since it's implemented on 
platforms?

[giampaolo]

From [email protected] on February 25, 2009 07:34:41

Yes, I can't think of any way to test this on Windows so we can just close this 

[giampaolo]

From [email protected] on March 17, 2009 08:31:20

Status: Fixed

[giampaolo]

From g.rodola on March 02, 2013 03:44:09

Updated csets after the SVN -> Mercurial migration: r154 == revision