On Apr 25, 2014, at 10:01 AM, Rainer Orth <r...@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote: > Agreed that this is ugly: ACL support in GNU coreutils has long been a > total mess; no idea if it has improved very recently.
So, are there ACLs on these files? If so, why? If no ACLs, I fail to see how anything can error out no matter how poorly written it is. What about cp a b && touch -r a b? Seems safer, seem portable enough.
