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On 10 Jul 2014 03:39, "Victor Stinner" <<a href="mailto:victor.stinner@gmail.com">victor.stinner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> 2014-07-10 9:04 GMT+02:00 Paul Moore <<a href="mailto:p.f.moore@gmail.com">p.f.moore@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
> > As someone (Tim?) pointed out later in the thread,<br>
> > FindFirstFile/FindNextFile doesn't follow symlinks by default (and nor<br>
> > do the dirent entries on Unix). So whether or not it's "natural", the<br>
> > "free" functionality provided by the OS is that of lstat, not that of<br>
> > stat. Presumably because it's possible to build symlink-following code<br>
> > on top of non-following code, but not the other way around.<br>
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> DirEntry methods will remain free (no syscall) for directories and<br>
> regular files. One extra syscall will be needed only for symlinks,<br>
> which are more rare than other file types (for example, you wrote "<br>
> Windows typically makes little use of symlinks").</p>
<p dir="ltr">The info we want for scandir is that of the *link itself*. That makes it easy to implement things like the "followlinks" flag of os.walk. The *far end* of the link isn't relevant at this level.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The docs just need to be clear that DirEntry objects always match lstat(), never stat().</p>
<p dir="ltr">Cheers,<br>
Nick.<br></p>
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> See my pseudo-code:<br>
> <a href="https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-July/135439.html">https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-July/135439.html</a><br>
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> On Windows, _lstat and _stat attributes will be filled directly in the<br>
> constructor on Windows for regular files and directories.<br>
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> Victor<br>
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