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Date:      Thu, 11 Jul 1996 17:19:51 GMT
From:      James Raynard <fbugs@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au
Cc:        zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bin/1375: Extraneous warning from mv(1)
Message-ID:  <199607111719.RAA01997@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <199607110803.SAA19123@godzilla.zeta.org.au> (message from Bruce Evans on Thu, 11 Jul 1996 18:03:28 %2B1000)

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>>>>> Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> writes:
> 
> Now I'm even more convinced that all cases where a mode would change
> should fail :-).  This is for mv.

Me too :-)

> Archivers should behave more like cp.
> Does cp actually do the wrong thing in any cases?  What should cp -p
> do with the mode if it can't preserve the ids?

Does POSIX.2 say anything relevant to this discussion?

-- 
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland
james@jraynard.demon.co.uk
http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/



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