2008/5/7 Abigail <abigail@abigail.be>: > > The following patch to File::Copy makes if one copies a file, permission > bits are handled as POSIX 1003.1 describes the shell utility 'cp' ought > to behave. Thanks, applied. I also added the following : Change 33795 by rgs@scipion on 2008/05/08 16:12:36 Bump version and document last change. Affected files ... ... //depot/perl/lib/File/Copy.pm#53 edit Differences ... ==== //depot/perl/lib/File/Copy.pm#53 (text) ==== @@ -19,12 +19,7 @@ sub cp; sub mv; -# Note that this module implements only *part* of the API defined by -# the File/Copy.pm module of the File-Tools-2.0 package. However, that -# package has not yet been updated to work with Perl 5.004, and so it -# would be a Bad Thing for the CPAN module to grab it and replace this -# module. Therefore, we set this module's version higher than 2.0. -$VERSION = '2.12'; +$VERSION = '2.13'; require Exporter; @ISA = qw(Exporter); @@ -392,6 +387,9 @@ You may use the syntax C<use File::Copy "cp"> to get at the "cp" alias for this function. The syntax is I<exactly> the same. +As of version 2.13, on UNIX systems, "copy" will preserve permission +bits like the shell utility C<cp> would do. + =item move X<move> X<mv> X<rename>Thread Previous | Thread Next