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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 3 | ||||
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@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ 2006-10-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Add a comment saying why we prefer + mknod over mkfifo. + Enable an fts optimization (call lstat only for directories, on some file system types) also with the --preserve-root option of chown or chgrp. diff --git a/src/copy.c b/src/copy.c index 3cc809459..5b66b281d 100644 --- a/src/copy.c +++ b/src/copy.c @@ -1634,6 +1634,9 @@ copy_internal (char const *src_name, char const *dst_name, } else if (S_ISFIFO (src_mode)) { + /* Use mknod, rather than mkfifo, because the former preserves + the special mode bits of a fifo on Solaris 10, while mkfifo + does not. */ if (mknod (dst_name, src_mode, 0) != 0) { error (0, errno, _("cannot create fifo %s"), quote (dst_name)); |