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> From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, bug-gnulib@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2023 18:40:20 +0200
> 
> Paul Eggert wrote:
> > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=349798a9b81fb4f7f8e1e1963ea9039a4a68a471
> 
> Isn't there something missing in this function 'copy-directory',
> around emacs/lisp/files.el line 6624? I see code for preserving the modes
> and the times, but not for preserving the owner.

See

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-10/msg00094.html

and the ensuing discussion, where we eventually decided not to do
that.