Create Linux implementation

[microsoft]

Create Linux implementation

[codingdave]

That are awesome news and a reason to change .NET 6 to 7 on my Synology box. Thanks for the information!

[danmoseley]

If it's possible to do, we should do it in File.Copy itself. dotnet/runtime#79243 (comment)

[erikmav]

Sure, see the Microsoft.Build.CopyOnWrite SDK which copies the Copy task code and adds in this library. Extend this library to all OSes and make use of it in Copy task in MSBuild.

[codingdave]

I was very happy to find this library and after reading the Readme I was sure it will work but then I run into this exception on Linux.

Exception has occurred: CLR/System.NotImplementedException
Exception thrown: 'System.NotImplementedException' in CopyOnWrite.dll: 'The method or operation is not implemented.'

at Microsoft.CopyOnWrite.Linux.LinuxCopyOnWriteFilesystem.CopyOnWriteLinkSupportedInDirectoryTree(String rootDirectory, Boolean pathIsFullyResolved)

If the library does not have Linux support yet, it should be documented up-front.

@danmoseley adding the COW feature to File.Copy was even better as this was the first place I was checking for COW support.

[erikmav]

Added a note in README about the missing support.

[rainersigwald]

On Linux, you should just pass through to the BCL implementation of File.Copy(). It is copy-on-write enlightened since .NET 7: dotnet/runtime#64264.