Jim Meyering [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
PHILIPP, Axel, Dr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Changes are:
(i) change mode before ownership if non-root user specifies preserve
ownership.
(ii) do not transfer special bits if preserve mode is
specified without
preserve owner. Since
Jim Meyering [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is relatively
low priority, since very few people care about systems configured to
allow regular users to use chown. If you don't hear back
from someone
after a couple weeks, please ping the mailing list. ]
I agree. Otherwise
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Von: Bob Proulx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2008 00:52
An: PHILIPP, Axel, Dr.; GNU Coreutils Bug List
Betreff: Re: AW: cp -p does not work if normal users are
allowed to chown files
PHILIPP, Axel, Dr. wrote:
we ran
Dear cp-Maintainer,
we ran into problems with cp -p on our Linux system when the file system
is configured to allow chown for normal users (eg
/proc/sys/fs/xfs/restrict_chown=0). As long as we used the IRIX cp was
used everything went fine, but with GNU cp we run into errors cp:
preserving
