On Tuesday 03 February 2009 19:03:33 Elmar Stellnberger wrote: > cp -a refuses to devolve the file mode when I copy a certain file > between two ext3 volumes > > whereas it does not report any error: > > cat syncit > > cp -a /home/./downloads/system/freebsd/bootstrap/etch/debootstrap > /mnt/home-mirror/home/./downloads/system/freebsd/bootstrap/etch/debootstrap > echo $? > for i in /home /mnt/home-mirror/home; do ls -l > "$i/./downloads/system/freebsd/bootstrap/etch/debootstrap"; done > > >./syncit > > 0 > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root users 34 Jan 21 04:56 > /home/./downloads/system/freebsd/bootstrap/etch/debootstrap -> > /compat/linux/usr/sbin/debootstrap > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root users 34 Feb 3 17:06 > /mnt/home-mirror/home/./downloads/system/freebsd/bootstrap/etch/debootstrap > -> /compat/linux/usr/sbin/debootstrap > > The file mode should be the same since cp has just successfully copied > that file. > I could not reproduce this behaviour in an artificial test setting. > Please answer me as soon as possible to issue further tests > since I do not know for how long this anomaly will hold. See chmod(1) man page: chmod never changes the permissions of symbolic links; the chmod system call cannot change their permissions. This is not a problem since the permissions of symbolic links are never used.
I know you are using cp, but I think this is related to cp as well. Kamil _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
