gh-81340: Use `copy_file_range` in `shutil.copyfile` copy functions by illia-v · Pull Request #93152 · python/cpython

Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>

Add a `Path.copy()` method that copies the content of one file to another.

This method is similar to `shutil.copyfile()` but differs in the following ways:

- Uses `fcntl.FICLONE` where available (see GH-81338)
- Uses `os.copy_file_range` where available (see GH-81340)
- Uses `_winapi.CopyFile2` where available, even though this copies more metadata than the other implementations. This makes `WindowsPath.copy()` more similar to `shutil.copy2()`.

The method is presently _less_ specified than the `shutil` functions to allow OS-specific optimizations that might copy more or less metadata.

Incorporates code from GH-81338 and GH-93152.

Co-authored-by: Eryk Sun <eryksun@gmail.com>

Add a `Path.copy()` method that copies the content of one file to another.

This method is similar to `shutil.copyfile()` but differs in the following ways:

- Uses `fcntl.FICLONE` where available (see pythonGH-81338)
- Uses `os.copy_file_range` where available (see pythonGH-81340)
- Uses `_winapi.CopyFile2` where available, even though this copies more metadata than the other implementations. This makes `WindowsPath.copy()` more similar to `shutil.copy2()`.

The method is presently _less_ specified than the `shutil` functions to allow OS-specific optimizations that might copy more or less metadata.

Incorporates code from pythonGH-81338 and pythonGH-93152.

Co-authored-by: Eryk Sun <eryksun@gmail.com>

Add a `Path.copy()` method that copies the content of one file to another.

This method is similar to `shutil.copyfile()` but differs in the following ways:

- Uses `fcntl.FICLONE` where available (see pythonGH-81338)
- Uses `os.copy_file_range` where available (see pythonGH-81340)
- Uses `_winapi.CopyFile2` where available, even though this copies more metadata than the other implementations. This makes `WindowsPath.copy()` more similar to `shutil.copy2()`.

The method is presently _less_ specified than the `shutil` functions to allow OS-specific optimizations that might copy more or less metadata.

Incorporates code from pythonGH-81338 and pythonGH-93152.

Co-authored-by: Eryk Sun <eryksun@gmail.com>

Add a `Path.copy()` method that copies the content of one file to another.

This method is similar to `shutil.copyfile()` but differs in the following ways:

- Uses `fcntl.FICLONE` where available (see pythonGH-81338)
- Uses `os.copy_file_range` where available (see pythonGH-81340)
- Uses `_winapi.CopyFile2` where available, even though this copies more metadata than the other implementations. This makes `WindowsPath.copy()` more similar to `shutil.copy2()`.

The method is presently _less_ specified than the `shutil` functions to allow OS-specific optimizations that might copy more or less metadata.

Incorporates code from pythonGH-81338 and pythonGH-93152.

Co-authored-by: Eryk Sun <eryksun@gmail.com>