Merge pull request #4190 from nicoddemus/merge-master-into-features

Merge master into features

src/_pytest/junitxml.py

@@ -221,12 +221,14 @@ class _NodeReporter(object):
         else:
             filename, lineno, skipreason = report.longrepr
             if skipreason.startswith("Skipped: "):
-                skipreason = bin_xml_escape(skipreason[9:])
+                skipreason = skipreason[9:]
+            details = "%s:%s: %s" % (filename, lineno, skipreason)
+
             self.append(
                 Junit.skipped(
-                    "%s:%s: %s" % (filename, lineno, skipreason),
+                    bin_xml_escape(details),
                     type="pytest.skip",
-                    message=skipreason,
+                    message=bin_xml_escape(skipreason),
                 )
             )
             self.write_captured_output(report)

src/_pytest/logging.py

@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ class LogCaptureFixture(object):
         Unlike 'records', which contains the format string and parameters for interpolation, log messages in this list
         are all interpolated.
         Unlike 'text', which contains the output from the handler, log messages in this list are unadorned with
-        levels, timestamps, etc, making exact comparisions more reliable.
+        levels, timestamps, etc, making exact comparisons more reliable.
 
         Note that traceback or stack info (from :func:`logging.exception` or the `exc_info` or `stack_info` arguments
         to the logging functions) is not included, as this is added by the formatter in the handler.

src/_pytest/pathlib.py

@@ -100,6 +100,26 @@ else:
     _max = max
 
 
+def _force_symlink(root, target, link_to):
+    """helper to create the current symlink
+
+    its full of race conditions that are reasonably ok to ignore
+    for the contex of best effort linking to the latest testrun
+
+    the presumption being thatin case of much parallelism
+    the inaccuracy is going to be acceptable
+    """
+    current_symlink = root.joinpath(target)
+    try:
+        current_symlink.unlink()
+    except OSError:
+        pass
+    try:
+        current_symlink.symlink_to(link_to)
+    except Exception:
+        pass
+
+
 def make_numbered_dir(root, prefix):
     """create a directory with a increased number as suffix for the given prefix"""
     for i in range(10):
@@ -112,6 +132,7 @@ def make_numbered_dir(root, prefix):
         except Exception:
             pass
         else:
+            _force_symlink(root, prefix + "current", new_path)
             return new_path
     else:
         raise EnvironmentError(