[darcs-devel] Use System.Directory.copyFile for file copying

[Salvatore Insalaco]

2007/7/20, Salvatore Insalaco <kirby81 at gmail.com>:
> 2007/7/19, Jason Dagit <dagit at codersbase.com>:
> > I'm trying to understand why System.Directory.copyFile would be
> > preferred.  Isn't it implemented in Haskell too?  Isn't bytestring (or
> > rather PackedString) IO heavily optimized and on par with C?

Mmmm... I spot an important difference between cloneFile and copyFile:
the first one doesn't copy permissions.
Maybe it's the reason of cloneFile existence?