target != os.readlink(dest):
raise
lchown(dest,sstat[stat.ST_UID],sstat[stat.ST_GID])
- # utime() only works on the target of a symlink, so it's not
- # possible to preserve mtime on symlinks.
if sys.hexversion >= 0x3030000:
- return os.stat(dest, follow_symlinks=False).st_mtime_ns
+ try:
+ os.utime(dest, ns=(sstat.st_mtime_ns, sstat.st_mtime_ns), follow_symlinks=False)
+ except NotImplementedError:
+ # utimensat() and lutimes() missing in libc.
+ return os.stat(dest, follow_symlinks=False).st_mtime_ns
+ else:
+ return sstat.st_mtime_ns
else:
+ # utime() in Python <3.3 only works on the target of a symlink, so it's not
+ # possible to preserve mtime on symlinks.
return os.lstat(dest)[stat.ST_MTIME]
except SystemExit as e:
raise