On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Neil Hodgson <nyamatongwe at gmail.com> wrote: > The technique advocated by Theodore Ts'o (save to temporary then > rename) discards metadata. What would be useful is a simple, generic > way in Python to copy all the appropriate metadata (ownership, ACLs, > ...) to another file so the temporary-and-rename technique could be > used. > > On Windows, there is a hack in the file system that tries to track > the use of temporary-and-rename and reapply ACLs and on OS X there is > a function FSPathReplaceObject but I don't know how to do this > correctly on Linux. I don't know how to implement this for metadata beyond the traditional stat metadata, but the API could be an extension of shutil.copystat(). -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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