"PHILIPP, Axel, Dr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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: > preserving permissions for `testdir/f1': Operation not permitted" > because ownership is changed before changing permissions.
Thanks for the report. First, please tell us which version are you using? Latest stable is coreutils-6.10: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.announce/44 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.10.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.10.tar.lzma _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
