-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Dan Jacobson on 11/12/2006 9:19 AM: > Seen on Debian coreutils 5.97-5:
Consider upgrading to stable coreutils 6.4, as the 5.9x series is no longer actively maintained, and as there were a number of changes made to cp in the meantime. > $ cp -i b a > cp: overwrite `a', overriding mode 0644? y > cp: cannot create regular file `a': Permission denied > $ 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 Sorry, but POSIX requires this behavior. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/cp.html In fact, the NEWS for 6.4 states the following: cp -i and mv -i occasionally neglected to prompt when the copy or move action was bound to fail. This bug dates back to before fileutils-4.0. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFV3yc84KuGfSFAYARAlVQAJ4zdqoP/bLMfVwq2L9XPeigMdRfigCdGTTe dEv1SD08KZ7zbse0mIz2im0= =e7Dq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
