On some systems (e.g., Ubuntu on hppa) the flush()

doesn't cause the exception, but the close() does.

Will backport.

Lib/test/test_resource.py

@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ class ResourceTest(unittest.TestCase):
                     try:
                         f.write("Y")
                         f.flush()
+                        # On some systems (e.g., Ubuntu on hppa) the flush()
+                        # doesn't cause the exception, but the close() does.
+                        f.close()
                     except IOError:
                         if not limit_set:
                             raise