From cbc06bb6390c1ad4a227723078ecd7f7689251cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 01:07:37 +0200
Subject: "cp -p" tries to preserve GID even if preserving the UID fails.

* NEWS: Mention this new feature.
* src/copy.c (set_owner): Try to preserve just the GID,
when initial fchown/lchown fails.
* src/cp.c (re_protect): Likewise.
---
 NEWS | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

(limited to 'NEWS')

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 14fb3cd8b..03e16a5d1 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
   Add SELinux support (FIXME: add details here)
 
+  cp -p tries to preserve the GID of a file even if preserving the UID
+  is not possible.
+
   uniq accepts a new option: --zero-terminated (-z).  As with the sort
   option of the same name, this makes uniq consume and produce
   NUL-terminated lines rather than newline-terminated lines.
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