Seen on Debian coreutils 5.97-5: $ cp -i b a cp: overwrite `a', overriding mode 0644? y cp: cannot create regular file `a': Permission denied
The message "overriding mode 0644?" does not drive home the real problem, which is a ownership problem I suppose, so the message could be improved. However, why fool the user into needing to respond if the command is guaranteed to fail anyway?! Just tell the user to try again with the appropriate extra switches, and don't bother with the "sucker Holmes" questions. Improve the algorithm to do the check before instead of after the question, or something. $ ls -dl ? . drwxr-xr-x 2 jidanni jidanni 60 2006-11-07 01:30 . -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2006-11-07 01:29 a -rw-r--r-- 1 jidanni jidanni 0 2006-11-07 01:29 b $ mv -i b a mv: overwrite `a', overriding mode 0644? y Perhaps improve this message too. $ _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
