1 /* copy-acl.c - copy access control list from one file to another file
3 Copyright (C) 2002-2003, 2005-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
6 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
7 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
8 (at your option) any later version.
10 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
13 GNU General Public License for more details.
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
16 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
18 Written by Paul Eggert, Andreas Grünbacher, and Bruno Haible. */
26 #define _(msgid) gettext (msgid)
29 /* Copy access control lists from one file to another. If SOURCE_DESC is
30 a valid file descriptor, use file descriptor operations, else use
31 filename based operations on SRC_NAME. Likewise for DEST_DESC and
33 If access control lists are not available, fchmod the target file to
34 MODE. Also sets the non-permission bits of the destination file
35 (S_ISUID, S_ISGID, S_ISVTX) to those from MODE if any are set.
36 Return 0 if successful, otherwise output a diagnostic and return a
37 negative error code. */
40 copy_acl (const char *src_name, int source_desc, const char *dst_name,
41 int dest_desc, mode_t mode)
43 int ret = qcopy_acl (src_name, source_desc, dst_name, dest_desc, mode);
47 error (0, errno, "%s", quote (src_name));
51 error (0, errno, _("preserving permissions for %s"), quote (dst_name));