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On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 11:11:08PM -0500, Charles Bailey wrote:
> - Moves the permission-changing code to File::Copy::cp(), making it
> non-identical to File::Copy::copy(). I think this is a decent
> compromise, retaining backwards compatibility in the "primary"
> routine, while allowing people who chose cp() to get more POSIXy
> semantics. It does break backwards compatibility of cp() wrt
> permissions. I can find a handful of examples in CPAN, for which I
> hope smokers will give some feedback. As for the DARKpan, who knows .
> . .
Although it's starting to sound like this should be in syscopy, not cp.
syscopy is currently documented as
File::Copy also provides the C<syscopy> routine, which copies the
file specified in the first parameter to the file specified in the
second parameter, preserving OS-specific attributes and file
structure. For Unix systems, this is equivalent to the simple
C<copy> routine, which doesn't preserve OS-specific attributes. For
VMS systems, this calls the C<rmscopy> routine (see below). For OS/2
systems, this calls the C<syscopy> XSUB directly. For Win32 systems,
this calls C<Win32::CopyFile>.
Removing the "For Unix systems..." seems to be the least backwards
incompatible change of all proposed so far.
Nicholas Clark
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