This commit was manufactured by cvs2svn to create tag 'v1_6_4'.

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/tags/v1_6_4@1498 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/ftools.rb b/lib/ftools.rb
index 369a6177d2..5e6203b1a3 100644
--- a/lib/ftools.rb
+++ b/lib/ftools.rb
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ class << File
 
     fmode = stat(from).mode
     tpath = to
+    not_exist = !exist?(tpath)
 
     from = open(from, "r")
     from.binmode
@@ -50,7 +51,7 @@ class << File
       to.close
       from.close
     end
-    chmod(fmode, tpath)
+    chmod(fmode, tpath) if not_exist
     ret
   end