Phil Stracchino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | fileutils-3.16 mv.1 states that when source and destination are on | different filesystems, | "... mv will copy modification time, access | time, user and group ID, and mode if possible." | | No it won't. Not, at any rate, the binary shipped with Slackware 7. It | applies umask to the mode when it copies the file(s). Previous versions | of mv did not do this. This behavior is undocumented, counter-intuitive, | and broken. Either it should be documented, or there should be an | --ignore-umask option - preferably both. Thanks for the report. That's fixed in the latest test release. ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/fileutils-4.0k.tar.gz
