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  r78061 | ronald.oussoren | 2010-02-07 12:38:28 +0100 (Sun, 07 Feb 2010) | 10 lines

  A number of APIs in macostools cannot work in 64-bit mode because they
  use Carbon APIs that aren't available there.

  This patch disables tests for the affected entrypoints in macostools and
  mentions this in the documentation.

  In theory it is possible to replace the implementation by code that does
  work in 64-bit mode, but that would require further updates to the Carbon
  wrappers because the modern APIs aren't wrapped properly.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/macostools.rst b/Doc/library/macostools.rst
index 96d2897..fc26d2f 100644
--- a/Doc/library/macostools.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/macostools.rst
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ files, so it should not be used on UFS partitions.
 
    This module has been removed in Python 3.0.
 
+
+
 The :mod:`macostools` module defines the following functions:
 
 
@@ -28,17 +30,30 @@ The :mod:`macostools` module defines the following functions:
    modification and backup times (default is to copy them). Custom icons, comments
    and icon position are not copied.
 
+   .. note::
+
+      This function does not work in 64-bit code because it uses APIs that
+      are not available in 64-bit mode.
 
 .. function:: copytree(src, dst)
 
    Recursively copy a file tree from *src* to *dst*, creating folders as needed.
    *src* and *dst* should be specified as pathnames.
 
+   .. note::
+
+      This function does not work in 64-bit code because it uses APIs that
+      are not available in 64-bit mode.
 
 .. function:: mkalias(src, dst)
 
    Create a finder alias *dst* pointing to *src*.
 
+   .. note::
+
+      This function does not work in 64-bit code because it uses APIs that
+      are not available in 64-bit mode.
+
 
 .. function:: touched(dst)