Re: [Bug-gnulib] addition: copy-file.h, copy-file.c

[Paul Eggert]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> I hope it's not getting boring. Here is a module to copy a regular
> file. No bells and whistles; only the modification time is copied too.

Also the access time and the Unix permissions; but ACLs and
owner/group are not preserved.

I'm a bit leery of calling this function "copy_file", since it does
things other than copying the file.  There are many options here, and
I'm not sure it's wise to usurp the name "copy_file" for just one way
of copying files.

Whatever its name, perhaps the function should take another argument
specifing exactly which metadata should be copied?