From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:17:48 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (copy_internal) [HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_AUTHOR]:
X-Git-Tag: v5.0.1~191
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f0a5712f74cd07d74d7a4c1d057a94521e6998f7;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(copy_internal) [HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_AUTHOR]:
Fix author preservation code.
---

diff --git a/src/copy.c b/src/copy.c
index a2774f5ad1..edc05fec17 100644
--- a/src/copy.c
+++ b/src/copy.c
@@ -1562,10 +1562,16 @@ copy_internal (const char *src_path, const char *dst_path,
   /* Preserve the st_author field.  */
   {
     file_t file = file_name_lookup (dst_path, 0, 0);
-    if (file_chauthor (file, src_sb.st_author))
-      error (0, errno, _("failed to preserve authorship for %s"),
-	     quote (dst_path));
-    mach_port_deallocate (mach_task_self (), file);
+    if (file == MACH_PORT_NULL)
+      error (0, errno, _("failed to lookup file %s"), quote (dst_path));
+    else
+      {
+	int err = file_chauthor (file, src_sb.st_author);
+	if (err)
+	  error (0, err, _("failed to preserve authorship for %s"),
+		 quote (dst_path));
+	mach_port_deallocate (mach_task_self (), file);
+      }
   }
 #endif