From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: dired-do-copy does not preserve ownerships
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 10:30:46 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40A8E8B6.90902@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87fza3lh4s.fsf@jidanni.org
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-17 16:30 UTC|newest]
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2004-05-14 5:20 dired-do-copy does not preserve ownerships Dan Jacobson
2004-05-17 16:30 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2004-05-26 18:04 ` Dan Jacobson
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