Has anyone released a Python "mock filesystem" for automated testing?

JanC usenet_spam at janc.invalid
Wed Nov 10 08:50:13 EST 2004


Peter Hansen schreef:

>> Just out of curiosity, does your os implement some form of disk in
>> memory disk? Go to <URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi > and
>> search for either mfs or md for examples.
> 
> I need to be cross-platform, so Windows and Linux must both
> be supported.  I suspect there isn't good support on Windows
> for the sort of thing you describe.

DOS (and later Windows) have had "ram disks" for at least 20 years...

One freeware example for Windows:
<http://www.arsoft-online.de/products/product.php?id=1>

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