Btw.: Using python 3.8.2 on Ubuntu 20.04

Hey,

mtime and atime are passed onto libssh2 - whether they do anything depends on libssh2. SFTPAttributes is a python class typical python code to create object and set attributes.

I just took a peek into the source code. I didn't find anything suspicious yet.
Looking at the manpage, it should be working...
No issues reported on the GitHub project either...
It would be nice if you could confirm that it is a pure ssh2 library problem. I could open an issue over there then.

I've never worked with cdef and the like.
The function definitions look like I could simply do things like

fileinfo = stat(path_to_file)
attrs = SFTPAttributes()
attrs.mtime(fileinfo.st_mtime)

and so on...
It would be convenient if I could simply initialize the object using the stat result of the file 😇

I tried the following (with full paths though):

fifo = stat(".bashrc")
attr = SFTPAttributes()
attr.filesize = fifo.st_size
print(".bashrc", datetime.fromtimestamp(fifo.st_mtime))
attr.atime = fifo.st_atime
attr.mtime = fifo.st_mtime
attr.permissions = fifo.st_mode
attr.gid = fifo.st_gid
attr.uid = fifo.st_uid
self.connection.setstat(".bashrc", attr)
t = self.connection.stat(".bashrc")
print(datetime.fromtimestamp(t.atime),  datetime.fromtimestamp(t.mtime))

first print with local file says: ".bashrc 2019-07-08 08:10:56.616019"
second print with remote file says: "2020-08-17 22:38:00 2020-08-17 22:45:40"

EDIT: I also tried it with relative paths (hard coded) with the same negative result

I also tried the sftp_handle.fsetstat, but that also doesn't seem to work.
Just in case, I also used a vm with mx linux using python 3.7, but it's also not working over there (sent file from vm to local pc).

Will try and reproduce in C when have some time, not high priority atm.