From f345b0278bf6ac2db389a17297ff03fde7891743 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz <gradha@imap.cc>
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 20:24:39 +0200
Subject: Adds os.copyDirWithPermissions().

---
 lib/pure/os.nim | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'lib/pure')

diff --git a/lib/pure/os.nim b/lib/pure/os.nim
index a7f4f7d91..b189ec224 100644
--- a/lib/pure/os.nim
+++ b/lib/pure/os.nim
@@ -1363,7 +1363,13 @@ proc createDir*(dir: string) {.rtl, extern: "nos$1", tags: [FWriteDir].} =
 
 proc copyDir*(source, dest: string) {.rtl, extern: "nos$1",
   tags: [FWriteIO, FReadIO].} =
-  ## Copies a directory from `source` to `dest`. If this fails, `EOS` is raised.
+  ## Copies a directory from `source` to `dest`.
+  ##
+  ## If this fails, `EOS` is raised. On the Windows platform this proc will
+  ## copy the attributes from `source` into `dest`. On other platforms created
+  ## files and directories will inherit the default permissions of a newly
+  ## created file/directory for the user. To preserve attributes recursively on
+  ## these platforms use `copyDirWithPermissions() <#copyDirWithPermissions>`_.
   createDir(dest)
   for kind, path in walkDir(source):
     var noSource = path.substr(source.len()+1)
@@ -1523,6 +1529,37 @@ proc copyFileWithPermissions*(source, dest: string,
       if not ignorePermissionErrors:
         raise
 
+proc copyDirWithPermissions*(source, dest: string,
+    ignorePermissionErrors = true) {.rtl, extern: "nos$1",
+    tags: [FWriteIO, FReadIO].} =
+  ## Copies a directory from `source` to `dest` preserving file permissions.
+  ##
+  ## If this fails, `EOS` is raised. This is a wrapper proc around `copyDir()
+  ## <#copyDir>`_ and `copyFileWithPermissions() <#copyFileWithPermissions>`_
+  ## on non Windows platforms. On Windows this proc is just a wrapper for
+  ## `copyDir() <#copyDir>`_ since that proc already copies attributes.
+  ##
+  ## On non Windows systems permissions are copied after the file or directory
+  ## itself has been copied, which won't happen atomically and could lead to a
+  ## race condition. If `ignorePermissionErrors` is true, errors while
+  ## reading/setting file attributes will be ignored, otherwise will raise
+  ## `OSError`.
+  createDir(dest)
+  when not defined(Windows):
+    try:
+      setFilePermissions(dest, getFilePermissions(source))
+    except:
+      if not ignorePermissionErrors:
+        raise
+  for kind, path in walkDir(source):
+    var noSource = path.substr(source.len()+1)
+    case kind
+    of pcFile:
+      copyFileWithPermissions(path, dest / noSource, ignorePermissionErrors)
+    of pcDir:
+      copyDirWithPermissions(path, dest / noSource, ignorePermissionErrors)
+    else: discard
+
 proc inclFilePermissions*(filename: string,
                           permissions: set[TFilePermission]) {.
   rtl, extern: "nos$1", tags: [FReadDir, FWriteDir].} =
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