From: Stas Bekman <stas@stason.org>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 16:18:53 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: File::Copy::syscopy doesn't preserve OS attrs on UNIX
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File::Copy::syscopy doesn't preserve OS attrs on UNIX
   Message-Id: <3C7E1E5F.1000605@stason.org>
   (Applied by hand).

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@14911
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diff --git a/lib/File/Copy.pm b/lib/File/Copy.pm
index 5558baf..31fad2a 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)