From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 18:50:16 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: yikes.  put the preserve_metadata assignment *after* declarations.
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-4_1_1~77
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/index.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e735c8f6e0ab5b42bea1145cc25ddd01dac65813;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

yikes.  put the preserve_metadata assignment *after* declarations.
gcc-3.0 didn't complain.
---

diff --git a/src/copy.c b/src/copy.c
index 33e47418fa..1d61b1d365 100644
--- a/src/copy.c
+++ b/src/copy.c
@@ -1278,7 +1278,6 @@ copy_internal (const char *src_path, const char *dst_path,
 #ifdef S_ISLNK
   if (S_ISLNK (src_type))
     {
-      preserve_metadata = 0;
       char *src_link_val = xreadlink (src_path);
       if (src_link_val == NULL)
 	{
@@ -1313,6 +1312,9 @@ copy_internal (const char *src_path, const char *dst_path,
 	    }
 	}
 
+      /* There's no need to preserve timestamps or permissions.  */
+      preserve_metadata = 0;
+
       if (x->preserve_ownership)
 	{
 	  /* Preserve the owner and group of the just-`copied'