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Re: fileutils 4.0y cp -a (cp -p) bug
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From: |
Jim Meyering |
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Subject: |
Re: fileutils 4.0y cp -a (cp -p) bug |
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Date: |
31 Oct 2000 20:16:12 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 |
Daniel Robbins <address@hidden> wrote:
| Hello,
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| I've found that "cp -a" and "cp -p" don't preserve suid ("s") bits.
| Is this intentional or a bug? I'm using fileutils 4.0y.
Thanks for the report.
It's a bug. It was fixed in 4.0z.
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/
the latest is 4.0.29, but has at least one small bug in `mkdir -p'.
4.0.30 is due out very soon.