From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dired-do-copy not really cp -p
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 07:23:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E194faH-0006Mv-00@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87smstn5mn.fsf@jidanni.org> (message from Dan Jacobson on Tue, 08 Apr 2003 09:24:16 +0800)
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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2003-04-08 1:24 dired-do-copy not really cp -p Dan Jacobson
2003-04-13 11:23 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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