From: Johannes Gijsbers <jlg@dds.nl>
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 14:03:03 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: bug #851123: shutil.copyfile will raise an exception when trying to copy a file
X-Git-Tag: v2.4a3~251
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9d134b7386933da18abd0c24c5c783d80fd66011;p=python

bug #851123: shutil.copyfile will raise an exception when trying to copy a file
onto a link to itself. Thanks Gregory Ball.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 019d0e8615..cebee3e012 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ Extension modules
 Library
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+- bug #851123: shutil.copyfile will raise an exception when trying to copy a
+  file onto a link to itself. Thanks Gregory Ball.
+
 - bug #570300: Fix inspect to resolve file locations using os.path.realpath()
   so as to properly list all functions in a module when the module itself is
   reached through a symlink.  Thanks Johannes Gijsbers.