defaulting to None like the other utimes family members. It now accepts
keyword arguments because, unlike other other functions in the family,
it has a `flags` value at the end of the argument list (which
retains its 0 default).

and lutimes.

for pointing it out.

os.utime in order to update to the current time. The second argument is now
optional.

Issue #13340.

Issue #13340.

The one interface we commit to maintain is the run module
(a.k.a. the pysetup script).

Running with regrtest does not show spurious output or unrestored
sys.std* objects; sometimes running with make test is different, I’ll
watch the buildbots.

In addition, update the create module to use logging.

When an option is changed on a command object, calling ensure_finalized
for a second time will not run finalize_options again, because
ensure_finalized is a no-op the second time.  By resetting the finalized
attribute, we can be sure that whatever computation takes place in
finalize_options will happen again.

(In test_command_clean, I removed two lines that were a no-op.)

Issue #10570

Issue #10570

This method was named reinitialize_command in distutils and accompanied
by a comment suggesting to change it to get_reinitialized_command.
Following that, I did the change for distutils2, but it proved
confusing: The Distribution object has an internal cache of command
objects, to make sure only one instance is ever used, and the name
get_reinitialized_command could suggest that the object returned was
independent of that cache, which it was not.  I’m reverting the name
change to make code clearer.

3a5a0943b201.  Do not close listening socket on subprocess restart.