[New-bugs-announce] [issue15411] os.chmod() does not follow symlinks on Windows

[Atsuo Ishimoto]

New submission from Atsuo Ishimoto <ishimoto at gembook.org>:

os.chmod() should check symlinks if followsymlinks option is True on Windows. 

This is a cause of failure of test case 

   test.test_shutil.TestShutil.test_copymode_follow_symlinks

(#13837)

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components: Library (Lib), Windows
files: chmod_symlink_win32.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 165996
nosy: ishimoto
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: os.chmod() does not follow symlinks on Windows
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.4
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file26462/chmod_symlink_win32.patch

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