Made fs::copy
return the length of the main stream
#44895
Merged
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On Windows with the NTFS filesystem,
fs::copy
would return the sum of thelengths of all streams, which can be different from the length reported by
metadata
and thus confusing for users unaware of this NTFS peculiarity.This makes
fs::copy
return the same lengthmetadata
reports which is thevalue it used to return before PR #26751. Note that alternate streams are still
copied; their length is just not included in the returned value.
This change relies on the assumption that the stream with index 1 is always the
main stream in the
CopyFileEx
callback. I could not find any officialdocument confirming this but empirical testing has shown this to be true,
regardless of whether the alternate stream is created before or after the main
stream.
Resolves #44532