* dired-do-copy not really cp -p
@ 2003-04-08 1:24 Dan Jacobson
2003-04-13 11:23 ` Richard Stallman
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From: Dan Jacobson @ 2003-04-08 1:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
Gentlemen, I accuse the "[-p]" of dired-do-copy's prompt,
Copy [-p] * [4 files] to: /tmp/barf
of being a big fat lie! Firstly, we all know that the real cp -p preservers
group and ownership. However dired-do-copy doesn't. Try it as root
today. Secondly,
dired-do-copy is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `dired-aux'.
...This normally preserves the last-modified date when copying.
OK, it only mentions dates. If this is all it mentions, then in the
prompt don't go blabbing about -p unless you plan to really deliver the vegetables.
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2003-04-08 1:24 dired-do-copy not really cp -p Dan Jacobson
@ 2003-04-13 11:23 ` Richard Stallman
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From: Richard Stallman @ 2003-04-13 11:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs
Gentlemen, I accuse the "[-p]" of dired-do-copy's prompt,
Copy [-p] * [4 files] to: /tmp/barf
of being a big fat lie! Firstly, we all know that the real cp -p preservers
group and ownership.
It does that when you are root, but ordinarily it can only preserve
the date. So ordinarily it is true that dired-do-copy works like cp
-p.
Would someone like to write the code to make dired-do-copy preserve
the group and owner when that is possible?
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