[issue7479] os.lchmod is not present

Change by Barney Gale : -- nosy: +barneygale nosy_count: 5.0 -> 6.0 pull_requests: +18222 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/18864 ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue7479] os.lchmod is not present

Georg Brandl added the comment: Added such a note in r76891. -- resolution: invalid -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue7479] os.lchmod is not present

steve added the comment: Thank you for you explanation of os.lchmod() Adding a note to the documentation would be very useful. I did search the internet for an answer before posting the bug, and I was only able to find forum posts of other people having the same issue. Thank you again, peace;

[issue7479] os.lchmod is not present

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Perhaps the top-level module description should just be clearer. Right now it is not obvious that functions marked "availability: Unix" may only be available on certain Unix flavours. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue7479] os.lchmod is not present

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: If we do that, we would probably need to acknowledge that most functions in the POSIX module are available only on some Unixes - namely all that are listed in posix_methods with conditional compilation. That, in turn, would be silly for things like getcwd where

[issue7479] os.lchmod is not present

Georg Brandl added the comment: I don't see why we can't start it. I'd prefer "Some Unices" though, since you never know when e.g. Linux is going to start supporting e.g. lchmod(). -- status: closed -> open ___ Python tracker

[issue7479] os.lchmod is not present

R. David Murray added the comment: Perhaps the bug is a small documentation bug, in that it should be "Availability: BSD-based unix"? We don't seem to have any other examples of doing that in the docs, though. -- nosy: +r.david.murray ___ Python tra

[issue7479] os.lchmod is not present

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: All functions in the POSIX/os module are available only on those systems that support them, and then do exactly what the system says they should do. So if your system doesn't have lchmod, the os module won't provide such a function on your system. There are sys

[issue7479] os.lchmod is not present

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: lchmod seems to be a BSD-specific function. -- nosy: +pitrou ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-

[issue7479] os.lchmod is not present

New submission from steve : Reason for opening this bug: I am opening a bug because the documentation here: http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.lchmod Says that in python 2.6 there is a method os.lchmod() for changing the permissions of unix symbolic links,