[issue11202] Win32: shutil.move does not inherit permissions

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> According to the shutil doc page, neither copy or copy2 should do
> this. And since they do, and you say shutil.move is implemented using
> shutil.copy2, shouldn't files moved with shutil.move also then inherit
> the permissions?

There's a misunderstanding I think. shutil.move()'s main path uses
os.rename(). Only does it fall back on copy2() when rename() fails.

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