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Re: "cp --no-preserve=mode" doesn't work as-expected


From: CJ Kucera
Subject: Re: "cp --no-preserve=mode" doesn't work as-expected
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:34:38 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01)

Jim Meyering wrote:
> Thank you for reviving that thread.  Actually, I never did fix it.
> I remember looking at it, and finding that any fix would be more
> than a little invasive.  So, while the value of the fix is obvious,
> there was also the matter of risk to the rest of the code, time to
> write and test the patch, including the obligatory test suite additions,
> so I added it to the TODO list:

No worries.  I had actually dug into the source a bit myself, to see if
it'd be a trivial fix, and for similar reasons, that's why I just attached
this report instead of report plus patch.  :)

Thanks again!

-CJ




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