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it's not clear how the shutil.copystat() should work on symlinks #56670

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BPO 12461
Nosy @merwok, @socketpair, @akheron, @hynek
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  • bpo-12715: Add symlink support to shutil functions
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    assignee = None
    closed_at = <Date 2011-08-21.10:21:11.438>
    created_at = <Date 2011-07-01.09:42:37.668>
    labels = ['library']
    title = "it's not clear how the shutil.copystat() should work on symlinks"
    updated_at = <Date 2011-08-21.10:21:11.436>
    user = 'https://github.com/socketpair'

    bugs.python.org fields:

    activity = <Date 2011-08-21.10:21:11.436>
    actor = 'eric.araujo'
    assignee = 'none'
    closed = True
    closed_date = <Date 2011-08-21.10:21:11.438>
    closer = 'eric.araujo'
    components = ['Library (Lib)']
    creation = <Date 2011-07-01.09:42:37.668>
    creator = 'socketpair'
    dependencies = []
    files = []
    hgrepos = []
    issue_num = 12461
    keywords = []
    message_count = 3.0
    messages = ['139561', '142603', '142606']
    nosy_count = 4.0
    nosy_names = ['eric.araujo', 'socketpair', 'petri.lehtinen', 'hynek']
    pr_nums = []
    priority = 'normal'
    resolution = 'duplicate'
    stage = 'resolved'
    status = 'closed'
    superseder = '12715'
    type = None
    url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue12461'
    versions = ['Python 2.6', 'Python 3.1', 'Python 2.7', 'Python 3.2', 'Python 3.3']

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