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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/shutil.rst b/Doc/library/shutil.rst index 4af5a16806..dcb2a16cff 100644 --- a/Doc/library/shutil.rst +++ b/Doc/library/shutil.rst @@ -420,8 +420,7 @@ the use of userspace buffers in Python as in "``outfd.write(infd.read())``". On macOS `fcopyfile`_ is used to copy the file content (not metadata). -On Linux, Solaris and other POSIX platforms where :func:`os.sendfile` supports -copies between 2 regular file descriptors :func:`os.sendfile` is used. +On Linux :func:`os.sendfile` is used. On Windows :func:`shutil.copyfile` uses a bigger default buffer size (1 MiB instead of 64 KiB) and a :func:`memoryview`-based variant of |