New submission from Zsolt Cserna <zsolt.cse...@morganstanley.com>:
The docstring of shutil.copy2 says the following:
Copy data and all stat info ("cp -p src dst").
This can be misleading as it is not the same as 'cp -p', as it does not copy
the file owner (uid and gid). That would need to have a chown() call to be
made, which is currently not called unavailable.
I would like to have the documentation fixed by adding that it does not copies
file owner and group.
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 322551
nosy: csernazs
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: shutil.copy2 is not the same as cp -p
versions: Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8
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