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| author | Steve Dower <steve.dower@python.org> | 2019-08-21 22:27:33 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2019-08-21 22:27:33 (GMT) |
| commit | df2d4a6f3d5da2839c4fc11d31511c8e028daf2c (patch) | |
| tree | e60154de9e835976aed87ab51ac3d5d9fda7f45f /Doc/library/stat.rst | |
| parent | bcc446f525421156fe693139140e7051d000592e (diff) | |
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bpo-37834: Normalise handling of reparse points on Windows (GH-15231)
bpo-37834: Normalise handling of reparse points on Windows
* ntpath.realpath() and nt.stat() will traverse all supported reparse points (previously was mixed)
* nt.lstat() will let the OS traverse reparse points that are not name surrogates (previously would not traverse any reparse point)
* nt.[l]stat() will only set S_IFLNK for symlinks (previous behaviour)
* nt.readlink() will read destinations for symlinks and junction points only
bpo-1311: os.path.exists('nul') now returns True on Windows
* nt.stat('nul').st_mode is now S_IFCHR (previously was an error)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/stat.rst b/Doc/library/stat.rst index c8f6904..f48a0a9 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stat.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stat.rst @@ -425,3 +425,13 @@ for more detail on the meaning of these constants. FILE_ATTRIBUTE_VIRTUAL .. versionadded:: 3.5 + +On Windows, the following constants are available for comparing against the +``st_reparse_tag`` member returned by :func:`os.lstat`. These are well-known +constants, but are not an exhaustive list. + +.. data:: IO_REPARSE_TAG_SYMLINK + IO_REPARSE_TAG_MOUNT_POINT + IO_REPARSE_TAG_APPEXECLINK + + .. versionadded:: 3.8 |