New submission from Eryk Sun <eryk...@gmail.com>:
Issue 46490 proposes to support follow_symlinks in os.utime() on Windows. Instead of duplicating the os.stat() implementation of follow_symlinks, I suggest factoring out a common _Py_CreateFile() function with two additional parameters: traverse (input) and pFileInfo (output). The `traverse` parameter would indicate whether to traverse or open a name-surrogate reparse point. However, FILE_FLAG_OPEN_REPARSE_POINT should take precedence over `traverse` and open any type of reparse point. The pFileInfo parameter would be an optional pointer to a struct that receives the file type (disk, char, pipe), file attributes, and reparse tag. Querying this information is required when `traverse` is false. There may as well be a way to return it. Since Windows 7 hasn't been supported since 3.8, this is also an opportunity to switch to the newer CreateFile2() function [1], which is required in order to use new file flags added to the API such as FILE_FLAG_OPEN_REQUIRING_OPLOCK. --- [1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/nf-fileapi-createfile2 ---------- components: Extension Modules, Windows messages: 411516 nosy: eryksun, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: [Windows] wrap CreateFile to support follow_symlinks type: enhancement _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue46506> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
