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| -rw-r--r-- | Source/kwsys/SystemTools.cxx | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Source/kwsys/SystemTools.cxx b/Source/kwsys/SystemTools.cxx index 6cdd5a3..3bb7869 100644 --- a/Source/kwsys/SystemTools.cxx +++ b/Source/kwsys/SystemTools.cxx @@ -2528,6 +2528,12 @@ SystemTools::CopyStatus SystemTools::CloneFileContent( return status; #elif defined(__APPLE__) && \ defined(KWSYS_SYSTEMTOOLS_HAVE_MACOS_COPYFILE_CLONE) + // When running as root, copyfile() copies more metadata than we + // want, such as ownership. Pretend it is not available. + if (getuid() == 0) { + return CopyStatus{ Status::POSIX(ENOSYS), CopyStatus::NoPath }; + } + // NOTE: we cannot use `clonefile` as the {a,c,m}time for the file needs to // be updated by `copy_file_if_different` and `copy_file`. if (copyfile(source.c_str(), destination.c_str(), nullptr, |