[issue12461] it's not clear how the shutil.copystat() should work on symlinks

2011-08-21 Thread Hynek Schlawack
Hynek Schlawack h...@ox.cx added the comment: This is a sub-issue of #12715. ATM the consent is to add just one symlinks parameter and use the l* functions iff src _and_ dst are symlinks. -- nosy: +hynek ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue12461] it's not clear how the shutil.copystat() should work on symlinks

2011-08-21 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: This report is older but the other one has more discussion and patches, so I’m closing this one. You’re welcome to follow the other. If you think the documentation for current versions should mention how symlinks are handled, please open a

[issue12461] it's not clear how the shutil.copystat() should work on symlinks

2011-07-03 Thread Petri Lehtinen
Changes by Petri Lehtinen pe...@digip.org: -- nosy: +petri.lehtinen ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue12461 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue12461] it's not clear how the shutil.copystat() should work on symlinks

2011-07-01 Thread Марк Коренберг
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