[issue46490] Add "follow_symlinks=False" support for "os.utime()" on Windows

Eryk Sun added the comment: In case you missed it, I implemented _Py_CreateFile2() in bpo-46506 and rewrote os.stat() based on it. Check it out in case you're interested in moving forward with a PR in bpo-46506. For this issue, follow_symlinks is fairly simple to support with

[issue46490] Add "follow_symlinks=False" support for "os.utime()" on Windows

Change by Eryk Sun : -- dependencies: +[Windows] wrap CreateFile to support follow_symlinks ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue46490] Add "follow_symlinks=False" support for "os.utime()" on Windows

Eryk Sun added the comment: The Windows API doesn't directly support opening a 'symlink' as Python defines it for the follow_symlinks parameter. That problem should be resolved in a separate issue. Then updating os.utime() would be relatively trivial. -- components: +Windows nosy:

[issue46490] Add "follow_symlinks=False" support for "os.utime()" on Windows

New submission from Delgan : Hi. Currently, trying to use "os.utime(path, timestamps, follow_symlinks=False)" raises a exception on Windows: "NotImplementedError: utime: follow_symlinks unavailable on this platform". Looking at the Win32 API it seems possible to open a symbolic link by