Re: Bug, or me being stupid?

[Andrew Walrond]

Ah - thanks! I'll upgrade and see how I get on

Richard Dawe wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Andrew Walrond wrote:
>
> > I want to copy a dir, preserving modes and timestamps but assuming
> > ownership, and I keep getting this error:
> >
> > address@hidden daedalus $ cp -r --preserve=mode,timestamps fly fly2
> > cp: ambiguous argument `' for `--preserve'
> > Valid arguments are:
> >   - `mode'
> >   - `timestamps'
> >   - `ownership'
> >   - `links'
> >   - `all'
> > Try `cp --help' for more information.
> >
> > Am I being stupid, or is this a bug? I'm using coreutils-4.5.3.
>
>
> It looks like it's been fixed in coreutils 4.5.4. From ChangeLog:
>
> 2002-12-11  TAKAI Kousuke  <address@hidden>
>
>         Fix a bug whereby cp would fail to parse an option like
>         --preserve=mode,ownership.
>         * src/cp.c (decode_preserve_arg): Advance `comma' to
>         point the character following the comma.
>
> coreutils 4.5.5 is out now.
>
> Regards,