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lizmat $ ls -ls big*
lizmat 11724800 -rw--- 1 liz macports 6003097600 Feb 11
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 04:21:32PM -0500, Parrot Raiser wrote:
Not replicating the original file permissions on a copy would be a
huge security hole. Anybody could copy a root-read-only file, examine
the contents, modify them, and, if they had write access to the
directory, replace it with the
Being really pedantic, the files have different permissions. I'm
sure that's what Mazak meant.
Umask is what is applied to the default permissions, to set the
actual permissions when a new file is created. It only relates to the
creation, not any subsequent states.
Not replicating the original
