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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2006-10-18 22:33:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2006-10-18 22:33:06 +0000 |
| commit | 81afea011033c0389ff03cfd4cc968f0b0cefaf0 (patch) | |
| tree | 1c88f29da1fbe5196cf2e0bb55e52def7f5de80c | |
| parent | 7bc17873e5e304ea50842aa1908caeb24685e949 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-81afea011033c0389ff03cfd4cc968f0b0cefaf0.tar.xz | |
* src/copy.c (copy_internal): Use mknod rather than mkfifo to copy
a fifo. This preserves the special mode bits on Solaris 10, which
is compatible with what Solaris 10 cp -R does.
| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/copy.c | 4 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@ 2006-10-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Use mknod rather than mkfifo to copy + a fifo. This preserves the special mode bits on Solaris 10, which + is compatible with what Solaris 10 cp -R does. + * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Remove redundant and confusing local variable src_type. diff --git a/src/copy.c b/src/copy.c index 5625ca9ce..d9a727aa9 100644 --- a/src/copy.c +++ b/src/copy.c @@ -1638,7 +1638,7 @@ copy_internal (char const *src_name, char const *dst_name, } else if (S_ISFIFO (src_mode)) { - if (mkfifo (dst_name, src_mode)) + if (mknod (dst_name, src_mode, 0) != 0) { error (0, errno, _("cannot create fifo %s"), quote (dst_name)); goto un_backup; @@ -1646,7 +1646,7 @@ copy_internal (char const *src_name, char const *dst_name, } else if (S_ISBLK (src_mode) || S_ISCHR (src_mode) || S_ISSOCK (src_mode)) { - if (mknod (dst_name, src_mode, src_sb.st_rdev)) + if (mknod (dst_name, src_mode, src_sb.st_rdev) != 0) { error (0, errno, _("cannot create special file %s"), quote (dst_name)); |