Jim Meyering [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> "PHILIPP, Axel, Dr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Changes are:
> > (i) change mode before ownership if non-root user specifies preserve
> > ownership.
> > (ii) do not transfer special bits if preserve mode is
> specified without
> > preserve owner.
Jim Meyering [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This is relatively
> low priority, since very few people care about systems configured to
> allow regular users to use chown. If you don't hear back
> from someone
> after a couple weeks, please ping the mailing list. ]
>
I agree. Otherw
"PHILIPP, Axel, Dr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jim Meyering [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> This is relatively
>> low priority, since very few people care about systems configured to
>> allow regular users to use chown. If you don't hear back
>> from someone
>> after a couple week
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
> Von: Bob Proulx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2008 00:52
> An: PHILIPP, Axel, Dr.; GNU Coreutils Bug List
> Betreff: Re: AW: cp -p does not work if normal users are
> allowed to chown files
>
>
PHILIPP, Axel, Dr. wrote:
> we ran into problems with cp -p on our Linux system when the file system
> is configured to allow chown for normal users (eg
> /proc/sys/fs/xfs/restrict_chown=0). As long as we used the IRIX cp was
> used everything went fine, but with GNU cp we run into errors "cp:
> pr
[thanks for the additional details. For now, I'm just Cc'ing
the list. Please retain the Cc in the future, so anyone else
with the same problem can find this discussion. This is relatively
low priority, since very few people care about systems configured to
allow regular users to use chown.
