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bug#16133: 24.3; copy-file fails on chmod when copying to FAT filesystem


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#16133: 24.3; copy-file fails on chmod when copying to FAT filesystem
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 20:01:24 -0800
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Emacs throws an error, and stops the copy operation,
> even if there are more files to copy.

copy-file copies just one file, so there can't be any more
files to copy.  When GNU 'cp' is acting like copy-file and
is copying just one file, it doesn't do anything more to the
file after fchmod fails -- it simply exits with nonzero status,
which corresponds to Emacs throwing an error.





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