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Re: cp -p
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Bob Proulx |
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Re: cp -p |
Date: |
Fri, 3 Nov 2000 10:29:39 -0700 (MST) |
> I feel that "cp -p" should not ignore the umask (although I see that
> this is the behaviour of Solaris's cp, too) because:
I disagree. I believe the behavior is proper when specifying the -p
option. Check out the online UNIX98 docs:
http://www.unix-systems.org/single_unix_specification_v2/
> Even if the user chmod's the file(s) afterwards, there is still a
> window of possibly excessive permissions.
> Users who wish to have the current behaviour can set their umask
> before the cp, then reset it afterwards.
But the reverse is also true with the current implementation. User's
that desire umask to be respected can avoid specifying the -p option.
But perhaps your request is really that you want a way to preserve
only timestamps on the file and no other attributes and the present
set of options does not provide a way to do that? Something like
--preserve-timestamps or some such?
Bob
- cp -p, Noel L Yap, 2000/11/03