Quoting Petr Salinger in http://bugs.debian.org/537555 :
> The Copy tries to detect whether source and dest are the same files. > Unfortunately, on the GNU/kFreeBSD the kernel returns for all pipes > as device and inode numbers just zero. See pipe_stat() in > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/kern/sys_pipe.c Patch by Petr Salinger, tests by Niko Tyni. --- lib/File/Copy.pm | 2 +- lib/File/Copy.t | 15 ++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/File/Copy.pm b/lib/File/Copy.pm index be1442f..d7ba500 100644 --- a/lib/File/Copy.pm +++ b/lib/File/Copy.pm @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ sub copy { my @fs = stat($from); if (@fs) { my @ts = stat($to); - if (@ts && $fs[0] == $ts[0] && $fs[1] == $ts[1]) { + if (@ts && $fs[0] == $ts[0] && $fs[1] == $ts[1] && !-p $from) { carp("'$from' and '$to' are identical (not copied)"); return 0; } diff --git a/lib/File/Copy.t b/lib/File/Copy.t index 7077a38..abff488 100644 --- a/lib/File/Copy.t +++ b/lib/File/Copy.t @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ use Test::More; my $TB = Test::More->builder; -plan tests => 459; +plan tests => 461; # We're going to override rename() later on but Perl has to see an override # at compile time to honor it. @@ -435,6 +435,19 @@ SKIP: { } } +SKIP: { + skip("fork required to test pipe copying", 2) + if (!$Config{'d_fork'}); + + open(my $IN, "-|") || exec $^X, '-e', 'print "Hello, world!\n"'; + open(my $OUT, "|-") || exec $^X, '-ne', 'exit(/Hello/ ? 55 : 0)'; + + ok(copy($IN, $OUT), "copy pipe to another"); + close($OUT); + is($? >> 8, 55, "content copied through the pipes"); + close($IN); +} + END { 1 while unlink "file-$$"; 1 while unlink "lib/file-$$"; -- 1.5.6.5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

