New submission from Марк Коренберг <socketp...@gmail.com>:
According to http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/588fe0fc7160/Lib/shutil.py it uses utimes(), stat() ans so on, For some people, it's preferable to use lutimes() and lstat(),but for some people it's not. For example, in old implementation, exception will raise on broken symlink during os.utime(). Also, copystat() does not check that chown can not be applied to a symlink. I do not think that it's good to add two parameters like shutil.copystat(src, dst, followsrc, followdst) Adding just one parameter (followsymlinks) is not sufficient. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 139561 nosy: mmarkk priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: it's not clear how the shutil.copystat() should work on symlinks type: behavior versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12461> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
