John,

I did as you suggested and it works well. The readdir/while loop in the code above now looks like this: 

opendir PLUGINS, "conf/plugins" or die "unable to opendir ./conf/plugi
+ns\n";
while (my $pluginfile = readdir(PLUGINS) ) {
    my $localfile = Bio::Root::IO->catfile('conf/plugins',$pluginfile)
+;
    if (-f $localfile) {
        my $installfile = Bio::Root::IO->catfile($plugindir, $pluginfi
+le);
        chmod (0666, $installfile);
        copy($localfile, $installfile)
            or die "$localfile unable to copy to $installfile : $!\n";
        chmod (0444, $installfile);
    }
}
closedir PLUGINS;

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The only caveat being that I had to chmod the files to 444 (readonly by everyone, including the owner (root in this case)). It is fine for Windows, but an annoyance on unix. I would have preferred 644 (writeable by the owner), but on Windows, that is the same as world writeable (from Perl's chmod perspective).

(I hate having to type :w and then :w! when I am reminded once again that the file is readonly.)

Thanks,

Scott
Project coordinator of the Generic Model Organism Database Project

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: File::Copy dying on Win2k when target file already there by scain
in thread File::Copy dying on Win2k when target file already there by scain

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