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| author | Stas Bekman <stas@stason.org> | 2002-02-05 00:18:53 +0800 |
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| committer | Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@wiw.org> | 2002-02-28 11:31:44 +0000 |
| commit | 67bab27142733df2e68380e1cf3f9d848872ac90 (patch) | |
| tree | 2a16393ce6c5349e6e163e7cc5f177f2eef685ff /lib | |
| parent | 347ff1e1e096e50c878f451986c434f1fe1d85fc (diff) | |
| download | perl-67bab27142733df2e68380e1cf3f9d848872ac90.tar.gz | |
File::Copy::syscopy doesn't preserve OS attrs on UNIX
Message-Id: <3C7E1E5F.1000605@stason.org>
(Applied by hand).
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@14911
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/File/Copy.pm | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/File/Copy.pm b/lib/File/Copy.pm index 5558bafe11..31fad2ac5d 100644 --- a/lib/File/Copy.pm +++ b/lib/File/Copy.pm @@ -333,9 +333,10 @@ 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. 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>. +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>. =head2 Special behaviour if C<syscopy> is defined (OS/2, VMS and Win32) |