Bug 733044 - os.utime does not work on CIFS share
Summary: os.utime does not work on CIFS share
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: python
Version: 15
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: Dave Malcolm
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-08-24 15:01 UTC by Sandro Bonazzola
Modified: 2012-08-07 16:09 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-08-07 16:09:23 UTC
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Description Sandro Bonazzola 2011-08-24 15:01:19 UTC
Description of problem:
When I try to use utime for setting mtime / atime for a file on CIFS share I've an OSError wirh errno ENOENT.
os.stat works fine without errors on the same file.

Searching around I've found bug #443395 so I've tested mtime preservation with cp -p and it works fine.

The bug is present in Fedora 14 and 15.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
On Fedora 15: python-2.7.1-7.fc15.i686
On Fedora 14: python-2.7-8.fc14.1.i686

How reproducible:
Always reproducible

Steps to Reproduce:
1. mount a CIFS share, say to /mnt/cifs1
2. cd /tmp; echo 123 > f123; touch -d '2005-01-02 11:00' f123
3. use the following script:

import shutil
import os

old = os.stat("/tmp/f123")
shutil.copyfile("/tmp/f123", "/mnt/cifs1/f123")
os.utime("/mnt/cifs1/f123", (old.st_atime, old.st_mtime))

Actual results:
OSError raised with errno 2

Expected results:
os.utime should be successfully executed

Comment 1 Sandro Bonazzola 2011-08-25 09:17:20 UTC
It seems that OSError is raised only if the CIFS server doesn't support the option serverino or if noserverino is specified at mount time.

cp -p works with both serverino and noserverino
python copyfile + utime doesn't work with noserverino

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