[issue12461] it's not clear how the shutil.copystat() should work on symlinks

[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> added the comment:

This report is older but the other one has more discussion and patches, so I’m closing this one.  You’re welcome to follow the other.  If you think the documentation for current versions should mention how symlinks are handled, please open a new documentation bug.

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nosy: +eric.araujo
resolution:  -> duplicate
stage:  -> committed/rejected
status: open -> closed
superseder:  -> Add symlink support to shutil functions
type: behavior -> 

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