Function chown_failure_ok

src/copy.c:2853–2868

   option set.  */

extern bool
chown_failure_ok (struct cp_options const *x)
{
  /* If non-root uses -p, it's ok if we can't preserve ownership.
     But root probably wants to know, e.g. if NFS disallows it,
     or if the target system doesn't support file ownership.

     Treat EACCES like EPERM and EINVAL to work around a bug in Linux
     CIFS <https://bugs.gnu.org/65599>.  Although this means coreutils
     will ignore EACCES errors that it should report, problems should
     occur only when some other process is racing with coreutils and
     coreutils is not immune to races anyway.  */

  return ((errno == EPERM || errno == EINVAL || errno == EACCES)
          && !x->chown_privileges);
}

/* Similarly, return true if it's OK for chmod and similar operations
   to fail, where errno is the error number that chmod failed with and