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)diff --git a/Doc/library/shutil.rst b/Doc/library/shutil.rst
index eaeee8d..a51e068 100644
--- a/Doc/library/shutil.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/shutil.rst
@@ -304,6 +304,10 @@
Added a symlink attack resistant version that is used automatically
if platform supports fd-based functions.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.8
+ On Windows, will no longer delete the contents of a directory junction
+ before removing the junction.
+
.. attribute:: rmtree.avoids_symlink_attacks
Indicates whether the current platform and implementation provides a