Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > Ok. > > But that makes the whole method inconsistent. > > Basically, if it's on the same filesystem, rename the file, and thus > not inheriting ACL. If it's on another use copy2, and inherit ACL.
I think you're misunderstanding copy2. It will copy the ACL from the source file, not from the target directory or filesystem. Actually, if you look at copy2's implementation, it's just copyfile() followed by copystat(). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11202> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com