[Python-Dev] Ext4 data loss

[Neil Hodgson]

Antoine Pitrou:

> How about shutil.copystat()?

   shutil.copystat does not copy over the owner, group or ACLs.

   Modeling a copymetadata method on copystat would provide an easy to
understand API and should be implementable on Windows and POSIX.
Reading the OS X documentation shows a set of low-level POSIX
functions for ACLs. Since there are multiple pieces of metadata and an
application may not want to copy all pieces there could be multiple
methods (copygroup ...) or one method with options
shutil.copymetadata(src, dst, group=True, resource_fork=False)

   Neil