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On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 08:39:56PM -0800, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 08:30:21PM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 08:07:25PM -0800, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> > > On OS/2 File::Copy::copy would not overwrite by default. Thus some
> > > files may not be updated by `make install'.
>
> > Shouldn't that be fixed instead of hacking around it?
>
> What is there to fix? Sometimes one behaviour is what is desired,
> sometimes another. Given that it is not documented what behaviour is
> the default, I see nothing to fix.
Ok, we can change it and document it. :)
Whether or not File::Copy overwrites by default doesn't strike me as being
very platform specific. Smells more like a bug or an unconsidered
consequence of using an OS/2 library call to copy files.
Can you pass some flag to DosCopy to make it overwrite or unlink the
destination file beforehand?
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Michael G Schwern schwern@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/
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