coreutils/src/copy.c, branch v6.0

(set_author): Preserve the st_author field via the

2006-07-29T17:13:28Z

file descriptor dest_desc.

* src/copy.c (set_author) [HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_AUTHOR]:

2006-07-26T14:43:00Z

Correctly access SRC_SB's element ST_AUTHOR.

* src/copy.c (copy_internal): Don't work around old NFS clients like

2006-07-05T09:08:42Z

SunOS-4.1.4 and Irix 5.3 that set errno to values like EIO and ENOTEMPTY upon failed rename. Otherwise, we risk misinterpreting a banal failure as a recursive move-into-self failure. Reported by Florent Bayle in .

Make `cp --link --no-dereference' work also on systems where the

2006-06-03T09:04:22Z

link system call cannot create a hard link to a symbolic link. (copy_internal) [LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINKS]: Don't use the link syscall on a symlink when it would do the wrong thing. Based on the patch by Aurelien Jarno:

mv -T DIR EMPTY_DIR no longer fails

2006-05-11T08:55:04Z

(copy_internal): Don't manually prohibit a move where the destination is an existing directory. Sometimes doing that is valid. Let the rename system call enforce the rules. That is allowed only when the source is a directory and the destination directory (to be replaced) is empty. Reported by Eric Blake.

(copy_internal): Don't explicitly unlink the destination

2006-05-11T07:33:00Z

when moving a symlink into the place of an existing non-directory. Reported by Joshua Hudson.

(set_author): Rename function, from preserve_author.

2006-03-12T22:52:46Z

(copy_internal): cp -RL no longer fails when encountering

2006-02-04T10:49:21Z

the same directory more than once in the hierarchy beneath a single command-line argument. That is legitimate, e.g. when there are two or more symbolic links, each pointing to some directory that would not otherwise be copied. Reported by Christophe LYON.

(set_owner): Correct a comment.

2006-01-02T21:34:53Z

Include lchmod.h.

2006-01-02T06:36:10Z

(copy_internal): Use lchmod rather than chmod.