On Thu, 2017-03-30 at 09:59 -0500, William A Rowe Jr wrote: > > Is this the expected behaviour? should documentation warn that if the > > destination already exists, then permissions will not be copied even with > > that flag? > > Since we make no statement either way I wouldn't call this 'expected'. > > The linux behavior of cp -p differs from the APR 1.5.x and earlier behavior.
Is Linux in any sense definitive? Is there any standard with unix roots (or even from the Windows world)? Does the flag mirror anything from stdio & friends ? -- Nick Kew
