New submission from Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org>:
You can't modify the mode of symbolic links on Linux. Thus, lchmod is a useless function. libc may, however, define a lchmod stub that always returns an error. autoconf has a check that detects the dummy stub for glibc, but it detects lchmod as working on musl. I propose we simply always disable lchmod if the target system is Linux. ---------- components: Build messages: 325185 nosy: benjamin.peterson priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: never enable lchmod on Linux versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue34652> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
