From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 00:42:00 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Change the order of the utime() and the chmod() call in copystat().
X-Git-Tag: v1.5.2b2~356
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e1bf7e8c1d5ec4e16a7dc772e3e6091e773e5007;p=python

Change the order of the utime() and the chmod() call in copystat().
This doesn't make a bit of difference on Unix, but apparently on
Windows NT you need write permission before you can set the utime...
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diff --git a/Lib/shutil.py b/Lib/shutil.py
index a248c6e90a..b44a069446 100644
--- a/Lib/shutil.py
+++ b/Lib/shutil.py
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ def copystat(src, dst):
     """Copy all stat info (mode bits, atime and mtime) from src to dst"""
     st = os.stat(src)
     mode = stat.S_IMODE(st[stat.ST_MODE])
-    os.chmod(dst, mode)
     os.utime(dst, (st[stat.ST_ATIME], st[stat.ST_MTIME]))
+    os.chmod(dst, mode)
 
 
 def copy(src, dst):