* fileio.c (Fcopy_file): Make fstat failure as serious as open failure.

fstat shouldn't fail, and if it does fail copy-file should not proceed.
Remove unnecessary S_ISLNK test, as (contra the comments) this
function can't copy symlinks.  Improve quality of error message
when attempting to copy files that are neither regular files nor
directories.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 3070fcb6e9d..53c0d93f512 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+2012-12-13  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+        * fileio.c (Fcopy_file): Make fstat failure as serious as open failure.
+        fstat shouldn't fail, and if it does fail copy-file should not proceed.
+        Remove unnecessary S_ISLNK test, as (contra the comments) this
+        function can't copy symlinks.  Improve quality of error message
+        when attempting to copy files that are neither regular files nor
+        directories.
+
 2012-12-12  Dmitry Antipov  <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
 
         * dispnew.c (set_window_cursor_after_update): Use clip_to_bounds.