From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Jul 11 16:18:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA13383 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 16:18:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-2.mail.demon.net (disperse.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.77]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA13369 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 16:18:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-2.mail.demon.net id bd01621; 12 Jul 96 0:17 +0100 Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa16659; 11 Jul 96 23:29 +0100 Received: (from fbugs@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA01997; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 17:19:51 GMT Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 17:19:51 GMT Message-Id: <199607111719.RAA01997@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: bde@zeta.org.au CC: zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199607110803.SAA19123@godzilla.zeta.org.au> (message from Bruce Evans on Thu, 11 Jul 1996 18:03:28 +1000) Subject: Re: bin/1375: Extraneous warning from mv(1) Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> Bruce Evans 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/