Greetings: I hope [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the proper place to report this; if it is not, perhaps you could point me to the proper contact.
The behavior of "cp -a" seems to have changed from version 4.0p to version 4.1. With version 4.0p, "cp -a" would change the ownership of the file(s) copied to the user performing the copy. With version 4.1, the ownership change portion of the copy now fails, though the time stamps seem to be preserved. Steps to replicate the problem are show below. System is RedHat Linux 7.2 Copy is from NFS mounted HPUX vxfs filesystem with standard mount options (rw,suid,delaylog,datainlog) to to local ext3 filesystem with default mount options. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [tmetz@strat] >/tmp/cp_4.0p --version cp (GNU fileutils) 4.0p Written by Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering. Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. [tmetz@strat] >/tmp/cp_4.0p -a ~jamals/isscc/slides/talk/* . [tmetz@strat] >ls -l -rw-r--r-- 1 tmetz users 2204 Aug 15 2001 inttalk.aux -rw-r--r-- 1 tmetz users 37096 Aug 15 2001 inttalk.dvi -rw-r--r-- 1 tmetz users 129232 Aug 15 2001 inttalk.ps -rw-r--r-- 1 tmetz users 384 May 10 2001 inttalk.tex [tmetz@strat] >rm -f * [tmetz@strat] >/bin/cp --version cp (fileutils) 4.1 Written by Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering. Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. [tmetz@strat] >/bin/cp -a ~jamals/isscc/slides/talk/* . /bin/cp: setting permissions for `./inttalk.aux': Operation not permitted /bin/cp: setting permissions for `./inttalk.dvi': Operation not permitted /bin/cp: setting permissions for `./inttalk.ps': Operation not permitted /bin/cp: setting permissions for `./inttalk.tex': Operation not permitted [tmetz@strat] >ls -l -rw-r--r-- 1 jamals users 2204 Aug 15 2001 inttalk.aux -rw-r--r-- 1 jamals users 37096 Aug 15 2001 inttalk.dvi -rw-r--r-- 1 jamals users 129232 Aug 15 2001 inttalk.ps -rw-r--r-- 1 jamals users 384 May 10 2001 inttalk.tex ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tim Metz, Computer Systems/Network Administrator Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of California, Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
