never enable lchmod on Linux

[benjaminp]

BPO	34652
Nosy	@benjaminp, @jmroot, @asottile, @miss-islington
PRs	closes bpo-34652: Always disable lchmod on Linux. #9234 [3.7] closes bpo-34652: Always disable lchmod on Linux. (GH-9234) #9239 [3.6] closes bpo-34652: Always disable lchmod on Linux. (GH-9234) #9240 Revert "closes bpo-34652: Always disable lchmod on Linux." #9241 [2.7] closes bpo-34652: Always disable lchmod on Linux. #9242 [3.7] closes bpo-34652: Always disable lchmod on Linux. (GH-9234) #9243 [3.6] closes bpo-34652: Always disable lchmod on Linux. (GH-9234) #9244 bpo-34652: Remove lchmod from the big func checking block. #9247 [3.7] bpo-34652: Remove lchmod from the big func checking block. (GH-9247) #9249 [3.6] bpo-34652: Remove lchmod from the big func checking block. #9250 [2.7] bpo-34652: Remove lchmod from the big func checking block. (GH-9247) #12799 bpo-34652 again: Remove lchmod from the default AC_CHECK_FUNCS list. #15758 [3.8] bpo-34652 again: Remove lchmod from the default AC_CHECK_FUNCS list. (GH-15758) #15763

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title = 'never enable lchmod on Linux'
updated_at = <Date 2019-09-09.13:01:50.789>
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[benjaminp]

You can't modify the mode of symbolic links on Linux. Thus, lchmod is a useless function. libc may, however, define a lchmod stub that always returns an error. autoconf has a check that detects the dummy stub for glibc, but it detects lchmod as working on musl. I propose we simply always disable lchmod if the target system is Linux.

[benjaminp]

New changeset 40caa05 by Benjamin Peterson in branch 'master':
closes bpo-34652: Always disable lchmod on Linux. (GH-9234)
40caa05

[benjaminp]

New changeset 69e9691 by Benjamin Peterson in branch '2.7':
[2.7] closes bpo-34652: Always disable lchmod on Linux. (GH-9242)
69e9691

[miss-islington]

New changeset 98344a4 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7':
closes bpo-34652: Always disable lchmod on Linux. (GH-9234)
98344a4

[miss-islington]

New changeset bdace2e by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.6':
closes bpo-34652: Always disable lchmod on Linux. (GH-9234)
bdace2e

[benjaminp]

New changeset ed709d5 by Benjamin Peterson in branch 'master':
bpo-34652: Remove lchmod from the big func checking block. (GH-9247)
ed709d5

[benjaminp]

New changeset 2184fe5 by Benjamin Peterson in branch '3.6':
[3.6] bpo-34652: Remove lchmod from the big func checking block. (GH-9250)
2184fe5

[miss-islington]

New changeset 35c94c7 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7':
bpo-34652: Remove lchmod from the big func checking block. (GH-9247)
35c94c7

[asottile]

I believe this also closes https://bugs.python.org/issue31940 and https://bugs.python.org/issue28627

[jmroot]

The follow-up fix (AC_CHECK_FUNC -> AC_CHECK_FUNCS) still needs to be backported to 2.7. Currently the lack of it causes lchmod to be disabled on all platforms, not just Linux.

[benjaminp]

We can take a PR to fix that.

On Thu, Apr 11, 2019, at 04:42, Joshua Root wrote:

Joshua Root <josh+python@root.id.au> added the comment:

The follow-up fix (AC_CHECK_FUNC -> AC_CHECK_FUNCS) still needs to be
backported to 2.7. Currently the lack of it causes lchmod to be
disabled on all platforms, not just Linux.

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