From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 09:27:57 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (re_protect): Don't fail for non-root when chown fails due
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-3_16l~13
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/index.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7c04ce1f097dcbd487e3b80ff2c22f287fa1d0e7;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(re_protect): Don't fail for non-root when chown fails due
not only to lack of permission (EPERM), but also to lack of support
(EINVAL).  Reported by Bengt Martensson.
---

diff --git a/src/cp.c b/src/cp.c
index cc2e4ea7c0..1e64cf4bd3 100644
--- a/src/cp.c
+++ b/src/cp.c
@@ -247,9 +247,10 @@ re_protect (const char *const_dst_path, int src_offset,
 	    }
 
 	  /* If non-root uses -p, it's ok if we can't preserve ownership.
-	     But root probably wants to know, e.g. if NFS disallows it.  */
+	     But root probably wants to know, e.g. if NFS disallows it,
+	     or if the target system doesn't support file ownership.  */
 	  if (chown (dst_path, src_sb.st_uid, src_sb.st_gid)
-	      && (errno != EPERM || myeuid == 0))
+	      && ((errno != EPERM && errno != EINVAL) || myeuid == 0))
 	    {
 	      error (0, errno, _("preserving ownership for %s"), dst_path);
 	      return 1;