mode_t mode;
- if (fchown(pair->dest_fd, (uid_t)(-1), pair->src_st.st_gid)) {
+ // With BSD semantics the new dest file may have a group that
+ // does not belong to the user. If the src file has the same gid
+ // nothing has to be done. Nevertheless OpenBSD fchown(2) fails
+ // in this case which seems to be POSIX compliant. As there is
+ // nothing to do, skip the system call.
+ if (pair->dest_st.st_gid != pair->src_st.st_gid &&
+ fchown(pair->dest_fd, (uid_t)(-1), pair->src_st.st_gid)) {
message_warning(_("%s: Cannot set the file group: %s"),
pair->dest_name, strerror(errno));
// We can still safely copy some additional permissions: