[docs] [issue12183] Python does not support lutime() function

[Марк Коренберг]

New submission from Марк Коренберг <socketpair at gmail.com>:

see
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/programming-9/utime-on-a-symbolic-link-743085/:
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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.
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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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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation, Library (Lib)
messages: 136928
nosy: docs at python, mmarkk
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Python does not support lutime() function
type: feature request
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.4

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