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authorGiampaolo Rodola <g.rodola@gmail.com>2021-05-10 20:45:06 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2021-05-10 20:45:06 (GMT)
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bpo-43743 add comment stating _USE_CP_SENDFILE should not be removed (#26024)
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diff --git a/Lib/shutil.py b/Lib/shutil.py
index e29fe4d..55cfe35 100644
--- a/Lib/shutil.py
+++ b/Lib/shutil.py
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ elif _WINDOWS:
import nt
COPY_BUFSIZE = 1024 * 1024 if _WINDOWS else 64 * 1024
+# This should never be removed, see rationale in:
+# https://bugs.python.org/issue43743#msg393429
_USE_CP_SENDFILE = hasattr(os, "sendfile") and sys.platform.startswith("linux")
_HAS_FCOPYFILE = posix and hasattr(posix, "_fcopyfile") # macOS