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 this is
PHILIPP, Axel, Dr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
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
[thanks for the additional details. For now, I'm just Cc'ing
the list. Please retain the Cc in the future, so anyone else
with the same problem can find this discussion. This is relatively
low priority, since very few people care about systems configured to
allow regular users to use chown.
PHILIPP, Axel, Dr. wrote:
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:
