#148 mysqldb does not check file permissions

[Anonymous]

It seems mysqldb does not realize it has nor read
privilege to read a file and happily continues. It dies
much later with confusing message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test19a.py", line 10, in ?
_c = connect(read_default_file =
"/home/mmokrejs/.my.cnf", read_default_group =
'IRESite', init_command = 'SET AUTOCOMMIT = 0')
File
"/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/MySQLdb/init.py",
line 66, in Connect
return Connection(*args, kwargs)
File
"/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py",
line 134, in init
super(Connection, self).init(*args, kwargs2)
_mysql_exceptions.OperationalError: (2002, "Can't
connect to local MySQL server through socket
'/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (13)")

mysql-python-1.2.0

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Actually, there isanother problem that the path to the file
supplied through read_default_file must be a full path, not
relative path. It should give me some clear error message
too. Again it complains with the 2002 error much later.

[Andy Dustman]

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This is a C API feature; MySQLdb does not interpret that
parameter in any way.