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Using the maven plugin with the default VirtualFileSystem leads to pathlib.Path.exists not working

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This can be observed when using pyfiglet with the maven plugin. The code of pyfiglet has this

path = importlib.resources.files('pyfiglet.fonts').joinpath(fn)
if path.exists():
    ...

path.exists() uses a stat call, and we raise (correctly) OSError for non-existing paths. But pathlib checks that the errno of that error is in a list of allowed errors, and otherwise just throws the exception upwards. The OSError raised from the VirtualFileSystem is errno 5: EIO, it should probably be errno 2: ENOENT.

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