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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