Paul Eggert wrote: > Good, thanks for confirming that the chmod family does not have a > similar bug.
Well, you asked me to try it on / but / is an ext4 FS, not a CIFS FS on my system. Should I try it also on a directory inside the CIFS mount? > I installed the attached workaround into coreutils master on Savannah. > Please give it a try. It does remove the diagnostic as intended: Preparations: $ mkdir dir3 dir4 $ echo foo > dir3/file3 $ echo foo > dir4/file4 With coreutils-9.4: $ mv dir3 /media/nas/bruno/ /gnu-inst-coreutils/9.4/bin/mv: failed to preserve ownership for '/media/nas/bruno/dir3': Permission denied With coreutils from git now: $ src/mv dir4 /media/nas/bruno/ I had worries regarding losing diagnostics that would be worth seeing. But in fact, coreutils-9.4 did not actually produce such a diagnostic. So, there is no regression for this case. Preparations: $ mkdir dir1 dir2 $ echo foo > dir1/file1 $ echo foo > dir2/file2 $ chmod a+rwx dir1 dir2 $ sudo chown root:root dir1 dir2 With coreutils-9.4: $ mv dir1 /media/nas/bruno/dir1 With coreutils from git now: $ src/mv dir2 /media/nas/bruno/dir2 Bruno
