Doron Behar <doron.be...@gmail.com> added the comment: > Can you provide a description of what motivated you to change the behavior or > what benefits this change would have for you or others?
Sometimes, you wish to copy a whole directory from a read-only file system and you don't want it to be read-only in the destination. > Do you know why others haven’t reported this need previously? On NixOS all of the files that belong to packages are read-only. I encountered the need for this feature in GNURadio, at: https://github.com/gnuradio/gnuradio/pull/5227 The following Stack overflow question also suggests the need for this functionality is a bit common: https://stackoverflow.com/a/17022146/4935114 ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue45558> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
