[New-bugs-announce] [issue30974] os.samefile / shutil._samefile: following symlinks

[Marcel Partap]

New submission from Marcel Partap:

Don't know whether it should be considered a documentation or behavioral issue, but os.samefile calls os.stat() on given files, following symlinks. Does this really "test whether two pathnames reference the same actual file"? I'd consider os.lstat() more suited for that.

This bites me every time I want to overwrite a symlink with its referenced file using ranger.

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messages: 298708
nosy: eMPee584
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: os.samefile / shutil._samefile: following symlinks
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7

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