New submission from Peter <peter.schm...@gmail.com>:
Using shutil.copystat (and therefore also shutil.copytree) in WSL on any directories from a mounted Windows drive (i.e. /mnt/c/...) raises an shutil.Error "[Errno 13] Permission denied". It seems to fail when copying the extended filesystem attribute "system.wsl_case_sensitive" using os.setxattr() here: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/da6ce58dd5ac109485af45878fca6bfd265b43e9/Lib/shutil.py#L322 Note that this only happens when both src and dst are on the mounted drive. If only one is on the drive and the other is e.g. in the home directory /home/username/, it will not raise an error. Quick way to test: cd /mnt/c/ && mkdir test1 && mkdir test2 && python -c "import shutil; shutil.copystat('test1', 'test2')" ---------- components: Library (Lib), Windows messages: 355655 nosy: paul.moore, pspeter, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: shutil.copystat fails with PermissionError in WSL type: behavior versions: Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue38633> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
