bug-coreutils
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

bug#65599: mv and cp give a pointless warning when moving/copying a dire


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#65599: mv and cp give a pointless warning when moving/copying a directory
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2023 19:56:59 -0700
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.13.0

On 2023-09-01 19:52, Paul Eggert wrote:
Yes please. If chmod also does not work coreutils might need more workarounds.

Just to be clear; please try it on a file where chmod should fail because you don't own the file and you're not root. chmod should fail with EPERM in this case; it it fails with EACCES it's buggy. Thanks.





reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]