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authorSteve Dower <steve.dower@python.org>2019-08-21 22:27:33 (GMT)
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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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+The ``nul`` file on Windows now returns True from :func:`~os.path.exists`
+and a valid result from :func:`os.stat` with ``S_IFCHR`` set.