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From: Jerry Krinock on 2 Apr 2008 20:03
At least for me, the module function File::Copy::Recursive::dircopy()
seems to not copy resource forks of descendant files when used in Mac
OS X.

Has anyone else noticed this? What's a good method for copying
directories in Mac OS X? Call system() to invoke cp?

Thanks,

Jerry Krinock
From: jerrykrinock on 3 Apr 2008 23:47
After looking into the source for File::Copy::Recursive I see that
this is due to its reliance on the copy() method in the superclass
File::Copy. And all of this is due to the fact that perl does not
have a built-in "copy file" function, which is well-known and seems to
have been discussed by people smarter than me who are discussing
whether or not to fix it in perl 6 [1]. So, I'll just use my own
workaround of calling system() to invoke darwin's cp (which copies
resource forks in Mac OS 10.4 or later).

[1] http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl6.internals/browse_thread/thread/1c11f0a67bde34c2/572e317b67a0c8e6?#572e317b67a0c8e6

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