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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/distutils/util.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/distutils/util.py | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/util.py b/Lib/distutils/util.py index 7aedc1c..9a299df 100644 --- a/Lib/distutils/util.py +++ b/Lib/distutils/util.py @@ -198,10 +198,13 @@ def copy_file (src, dst, _copy_file_contents (src, dst) if preserve_mode or preserve_times: st = os.stat (src) - if preserve_mode: - os.chmod (dst, S_IMODE (st[ST_MODE])) + + # According to David Ascher <da@ski.org>, utime() should be done + # before chmod() (at least under NT). if preserve_times: os.utime (dst, (st[ST_ATIME], st[ST_MTIME])) + if preserve_mode: + os.chmod (dst, S_IMODE (st[ST_MODE])) return 1 |