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Re: [Python-Dev] Ext4 data loss Antoine Pitrou Wed Mar 11 05:00:41 2009 

Neil Hodgson <nyamatongwe <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
>    shutil.copystat does not copy over the owner, group or ACLs.

It depends on what you call "ACLs". It does copy the chmod permission bits.
As for owner and group, I think there is a very good reason that it doesn't copy
them: under Linux, only root can change these properties.



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