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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2016-08-18 13:54:48 +0100
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2016-08-18 13:54:48 +0100
commitbd75118c16d8bca235b61dbb99326c043278a791 (patch)
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parent3e71b0657760825d4c3a356df67a59fc6bc57ec6 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-bd75118c16d8bca235b61dbb99326c043278a791.tar.xz
cp: with --parents --no-preserve=mode don't copy dir perms
* src/cp.c (make_dir_parents_private): Use default permissions for created directories when --no-preserve=mode is specified. * tests/cp/cp-parents.sh: Add a test case. * NEWS: Mention the fix. Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/24251
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@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
handling ACLs on Cygwin and Solaris platforms. [bug introduced in
coreutils-8.24]
+ cp --parents --no-preserve=mode, no longer copies permissions from source
+ directories, instead using default permissions for created directories.
+ [bug introduced in coreutils-5.93]
+
chcon, chgrp, chmod, chown, du, and rm, or specifically utilities
using the FTS interface, now diagnose failures returned by readdir().
[this bug was inherent in the use of fts: thus, for rm the bug was