From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: dired-do-copy does not preserve ownerships Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 10:30:46 -0600 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <40A8E8B6.90902@yahoo.com> References: <87fza3lh4s.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084817646 25841 80.91.224.253 (17 May 2004 18:14:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 18:14:06 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 17 20:13:58 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BPmcf-0000f7-00 for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 20:13:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BPmZG-0001oh-8O for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 May 2004 14:10:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BPlFp-0001QW-47 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2004 12:46:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BPlF8-0001IT-FG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2004 12:46:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BPl0x-0007Nd-Nn for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2004 12:30:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BPl0r-0002oa-00 for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 18:30:54 +0200 Original-Received: from 170.207.51.80 ([170.207.51.80]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 18:30:49 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 170.207.51.80 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 18:30:49 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:7961 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:7961 Dan Jacobson wrote: > dired-do-copy, even though it prompts that it is using cp -p, > does not preserve ownerships, at least when root, on Debian. No, it prompts with "Copy [-p]", not "cp -p". And it's doc string clearly states: | This normally preserves the last-modified date when copying. but says nothing about ownership. > Real cp -p does. Emacs-version "21.3.1" using --no-site-file -q. -- Kevin Rodgers