On Tuesday 03 February 2009 19:03:33 Elmar Stellnberger wrote:
cp -a refuses to devolve the file mode when I copy a certain file
between two ext3 volumes
whereas it does not report any error:
cat syncit
cp -a /home/./downloads/system/freebsd/bootstrap/etch/debootstrap
/mnt/home-mirror/home/./downloads/system/freebsd/bootstrap/etch/debootstrap
echo $?
for i in /home /mnt/home-mirror/home; do ls -l
$i/./downloads/system/freebsd/bootstrap/etch/debootstrap; done
./syncit
0
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root users 34 Jan 21 04:56
/home/./downloads/system/freebsd/bootstrap/etch/debootstrap -
/compat/linux/usr/sbin/debootstrap
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root users 34 Feb 3 17:06
/mnt/home-mirror/home/./downloads/system/freebsd/bootstrap/etch/debootstrap
- /compat/linux/usr/sbin/debootstrap
The file mode should be the same since cp has just successfully copied
that file.
I could not reproduce this behaviour in an artificial test setting.
Please answer me as soon as possible to issue further tests
since I do not know for how long this anomaly will hold.
See chmod(1) man page:
chmod never changes the permissions of symbolic links; the chmod system call
cannot change their permissions. This is not a problem since the permissions
of symbolic links are never used.
I know you are using cp, but I think this is related to cp as well.
Kamil
___
Bug-coreutils mailing list
Bug-coreutils@gnu.org
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
