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

Éric Araujo 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 new documentation bu

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

Hynek Schlawack 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

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

Changes by Petri Lehtinen : -- nosy: +petri.lehtinen ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mai

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

New submission from Марк Коренберг : 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 implementation, exception will rais