[issue37700] shutil.copyfile does not raise SpecialFileError for socket files

[Christopher Hunt]

Christopher Hunt <chrahunt at gmail.com> added the comment:

See also: the comment from https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/e1b900247227dad49d8231f1d028872412230ab4/Lib/shutil.py#L245:

> # XXX What about other special files? (sockets, devices...)

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