On 09 Aug 2016, at 09:00, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote: > Thanks. The "cp -p" feature was not portable in the days that this script > was written, but it should be safe to use now.
Hmm. I kind of thought that "If the user ID and group ID cannot be preserved, no error message is displayed and the exit value is not altered” was a bit of a problem, since if a key part of the -p flag fails, there’s no errr condition.
