The discussion in this ticket appears to have petered out in June 2006. The state of any efforts to work on it is unclear.
This RT was mentioned by Whiteknight on his blog on July 17 2009: "Likewise, Ticket #38146 discusses the creation of a file copying utility, although discussion there has since degraded into a general discussion about what's the best architecture to use for implementing these kinds of functions. Input on that discussion, or a solution to the problem, would both be appreciated (and moving the ticket from RT to Trac where it can be even more visible would be a big plus!)" Since there may be people who participated in this thread who are not yet following Trac or parrot-dev, I'm posting this to the old list as well. Can anyone summarize where we stand? Thank you very much. kid51