On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 11:30:59 -0800, David Brodbeck <g...@gull.us> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Joe Kraft <jvk-l...@thekrafts.org> wrote: > > OK, now I know what's going on. I just don't know why. The immutable flag > > was set on all these files, if you clear it cpio will happily copy them to > > the new directory. > > Does cpio attempt to preserve flags? Since the error is "could not > create," I'm wondering if it's trying to set the same flags on the > copy of the file and failing to do so.
I'm not sure about that - "man cpio" doesn't give a hint about flags. On the other hand, tar's -p option does keep the file mode (permissions), flags and maybe ACLs intact. I've tried "info cpio" ouch! ouch!, but that's not a continuous manual that allows easy searching for strings. :-( Some search in the /usr/src/bin subtree for the "chflags" call revealed that it is used by the chflags binary, cp, mv and rm commands, but no hint it is involved directly in cpio. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
