Hi!

It seems that under Unix it's not possible to preserve file attributes using File::Copy. The documentation somehow explains that:

File::Copy also provides the "syscopy" routine, which copies the file specified in the first parameter to the file specified in the second parameter, preserving OS-specific attributes and file structure. For Unix systems, this is equivalent to the simple "copy" routine, which doesn't preserve OS-specific attributes. For VMS systems, this calls the "rmscopy" routine (see below). For OS/2 systems, this calls the "syscopy" XSUB directly. For Win32 systems, this calls "Win32::CopyFile".

So, there's syscopy, but it won't do anything different from "copy" useful under Unix. So, it might not be possible to go with the pure perl solution this time...

Michele.