Re: copy-directory

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael Albinus <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:58:51 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Please don't rely on the `chown' command being available for the
> > preserve-uid-gid option.  It is only available on Posix platforms.
> > Instead, please add a primitive to do this from within Emacs.
> 
> I know that. But I do not know how important it is on W32.

NTFS, the native filesystem of Windows 2K/XP/Vista supports file
ownership, so it's at least as important as on Posix.