Hi Andreas! Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When the destination file does not exist cp uses the permissions of the > source file for creating the destination, as specified by POSIX. Wouldn't > it be useful if --no-preserve=mode would cause cp to use the default > permissions (ie. 0666 - umask) instead?
Yes. That it does otherwise is counter-intuitive, to say the least. I'll do that soon, but not for 4.5.8. Thank you for reporting that! _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
