Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is
now silenced.
diff --git a/Lib/shutil.py b/Lib/shutil.py
index df571e7..0dfc7c7 100644
--- a/Lib/shutil.py
+++ b/Lib/shutil.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
import fnmatch
from warnings import warn
import collections
+import errno
try:
from pwd import getpwnam
@@ -105,8 +106,11 @@
if hasattr(os, 'chmod'):
os.chmod(dst, mode)
if hasattr(os, 'chflags') and hasattr(st, 'st_flags'):
- os.chflags(dst, st.st_flags)
-
+ try:
+ os.chflags(dst, st.st_flags)
+ except OSError, why:
+ if not hasattr(errno, 'EOPNOTSUPP') or why.errno != errno.EOPNOTSUPP:
+ raise
def copy(src, dst):
"""Copy data and mode bits ("cp src dst").
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 1824f5f..f207082 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@
Library
-------
+- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
+ didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is
+ now silenced.
+
- Issue #7703: ctypes supports both buffer() and memoryview(). The former is
deprecated.