On Wednesday, January 9, 2002, at 03:45 AM, Dan Kogai wrote: > Do you mean that I modify File::Copy? That's a possibility but as I > answered in MacOSX::File::Copy vs. File::Coply, I believe File::Copy > should > behave like /bin/cp (actually, copy() does cp -p because it copies > mtime and > atime)
Undoubtedly there will be people who agree with you and others who disagree with you about what "should" happen, but the decision WRT File::Copy has already been made. Since File::Copy has copied the resource fork on MacOS for several years, it should continue to do so. I'd call its current behavior on Mac OS X broken. -Ken
