On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 08:56:47PM +0300, Stanislav Sedov wrote: > On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:54:27 +0100 > Pav Lucistnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mentioned: > > > Stanislav Sedov píše v út 18. 03. 2008 v 19:50 +0300: > > > On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:43:08 +0100 > > > Pav Lucistnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mentioned: > > > > > > > > It will also change permissions on all files already present in the > > > > target directory, I think. Which might not be a desirable thing. > > > > > > > > > > Indeed, I know. That's why I'm asking if it'll be desirable. > > > > It's a COPYTREE_* bug that needs to be fixed, actually. > > > > Why you think it's a bug? COPYTREE_* was intentionally designed to set > specific permissions on files written. > > Of course, we can implement a version of COPYTREE that doesn't set any > permissions on files, but it'll be effectively just a 'cp -rf'.
I think what Pav said is 1) copy these files into destdir/ 2) set permissions on *those files* just copied in destdir/ what COPYTREE_* currently does is 2) set permission on *all files* in destdir/ Regards, Rong-En Fan > > -- > Stanislav Sedov > ST4096-RIPE
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