Please find below a patch to copy.c in fileutils-4.0 which ensures that the source and destination files get opened in binary mode on platforms where it makes a difference, such as Cygwin. 43a44,48 > /* O_BINARY isn't required (or even defined sometimes) under Unix */ > #ifndef O_BINARY > #define O_BINARY 0 > #endif > 179c184 < source_desc = open (src_path, O_RDONLY); --- > source_desc = open (src_path, O_RDONLY | O_BINARY); 198c203 < dest_desc = open (dst_path, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, 0600); --- > dest_desc = open (dst_path, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC | O_BINARY, 0600);
