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* dired-do-copy not really cp -p
@ 2003-04-08  1:24 Dan Jacobson
  2003-04-13 11:23 ` Richard Stallman
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
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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