Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The following patch, first proposed for cygwin, is needed on systems like
>> cygwin where not copying in binary mode can lead to data corruption.  This
>> affects mv, cp, and install.
>>
>> 2005-03-15  Corinna Vinschen  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  (tiny change)
>>
>>      * src/copy.c (copy_reg): Copy regular files in binary mode.

By the way, can you produce a small test case that fails
without this patch and that succeeds with it?
Best would be a patch adding a test to be run by `make check'.


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