On 13/04/15 00:10, Andreas Grünbacher wrote: > When a file is copied with cp, the default is to create the new file > in the target directory, with the file mode of the original file as > the create mode. This default can be overridden with cp's -p or > --preserve=mode options. > > This has the following effect: > > * In the absence of a default acl, the new file will have the original > file's permission bits minus the umask. > > * In the presence of a default acl, the default acl replaces the umask. > The new file will inherit the default acl, which results in an imaginary > file mode. The actual file mode is set to the intersection of the original > file's permission bits and this imaginary file mode. > > This is not a bug, it is the expected and documented behavior; see the > POSIX standard, POSIX 1003.1e/2c draft standard [*], and also the > coreutils info pages (info coreutils 'cp invocation') which could be > improved.
Your improvement pull request is now pushed at http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=88e4910 thanks! Pádraig.
