> I feel that "cp -p" should not ignore the umask (although I see that > this is the behaviour of Solaris's cp, too) because: I disagree. I believe the behavior is proper when specifying the -p option. Check out the online UNIX98 docs: http://www.unix-systems.org/single_unix_specification_v2/ > Even if the user chmod's the file(s) afterwards, there is still a > window of possibly excessive permissions. > Users who wish to have the current behaviour can set their umask > before the cp, then reset it afterwards. But the reverse is also true with the current implementation. User's that desire umask to be respected can avoid specifying the -p option. But perhaps your request is really that you want a way to preserve only timestamps on the file and no other attributes and the present set of options does not provide a way to do that? Something like --preserve-timestamps or some such? Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
