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Author	socketpair
Recipients	docs@python, socketpair
Date	2011-05-26.04:41:59
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Message-id	<1306384920.41.0.626033537775.issue12183@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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see http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/programming-9/utime-on-a-symbolic-link-743085/: ---------- Hello, The API utime() is not available for symbolic links. However, with kernel 2.6.22 lutimes() API allowed setting times on atime and mtime on symbolic links. ---------- Neither python 2.7 nor 3.4 support lutime() syscall. So imlpementation of shutil.copy2() and shutil.copystat() under question for symlinks. Also it's not clear in documentation behaviour of these functions on symlinks.

see
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/programming-9/utime-on-a-symbolic-link-743085/:
----------
Hello,
The API utime() is not available for symbolic links.
However, with kernel 2.6.22 lutimes() API allowed setting times on atime and mtime on symbolic links.
----------

Neither python 2.7 nor 3.4 support lutime() syscall.
So imlpementation of shutil.copy2() and shutil.copystat() under question for symlinks. Also it's not clear in documentation behaviour of these functions on symlinks.

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