Doc tweak from Wolfgang Laun.

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / lib / File / Copy.pm

diff --git a/lib/File/Copy.pm b/lib/File/Copy.pm
index 0a6ea8b..31fad2a 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/File/Copy.pm
+++ b/lib/File/Copy.pm
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 package File::Copy;
 
-use 5.6.0;
+use 5.006;
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 use Carp;
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ sub mv;
 # 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.
-$VERSION = '2.04';
+$VERSION = '2.05';
 
 require Exporter;
 @ISA = qw(Exporter);
@@ -72,10 +72,11 @@ sub copy {
 
     if ($Config{d_symlink} && $Config{d_readlink} &&
        !($^O eq 'Win32' || $^O eq 'os2' || $^O eq 'vms')) {
-       if (-l $from || -l $to) {
+       no warnings 'io'; # don't warn if -l on filehandle
+       if ((-e $from && -l $from) || (-e $to && -l $to)) {
            my @fs = stat($from);
            my @ts = stat($to);
-           if ($fs[0] == $ts[0] && $fs[1] == $ts[1]) {
+           if (@fs && @ts && $fs[0] == $ts[0] && $fs[1] == $ts[1]) {
                croak("'$from' and '$to' are identical (not copied)");
            }
        }
@@ -128,8 +129,7 @@ sub copy {
        $size = shift(@_) + 0;
        croak("Bad buffer size for copy: $size\n") unless ($size > 0);
     } else {
-       no warnings 'uninitialized';
-       $size = -s $from_h;
+       $size = tied(*$from_h) ? 0 : -s $from_h || 0;
        $size = 1024 if ($size < 512);
        $size = $Too_Big if ($size > $Too_Big);
     }
@@ -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)