I tried it and it seems to work on my Solaris box/Perl 5.6.1: Here's some test code if anyone is interested:

use File::NCopy; 
$c = new File::NCopy(preserve => 1); 
$c->copy("test", "test2");
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This code successfully preserved permissions, group, and modified/access times. Presumably owner would also be preserved, but I'm not running as root so didn't bother to test that. Without preserve => 1, permissions are still preserved but the other stuff isn't.

Thanks, L~R.

-- DrWhy