"cp" is not necessarily "smart" in this regard; in fact, the opposite is
true:  the smarts comes from the fact that it looks at the mode at all,
and it doesn't appear to exactly preserve the mode (except for maybe the
execute bit) -- note that the umask(2) has a distinct effect on what
"cp" does.

#define AUTHOR "explorer@vorpal.com ("Michael Graff")"

/*
 * 
 * >For most sites this is a bad thing to do...
 * >
 * >% cp /bin/sh /tmp/igetroot
 * >% chmod u+s /tmp/igetroot
 * >% /usr/sbin/chown root /tmp/igetroot
 * >% /tmp/igetroot
 * 
 * Unless chown would do something smart, like strip off setuid bits, like cp
 * does:
 * 
 * % ls -l /bin/ps
 * -r-xr-sr-x  1 bin  kmem  143360 Oct 23 03:40 /bin/ps
 * % cp /bin/ps myps
 * % ls -l myps
 * -r-xr-x---  1 explorer  explorer  143360 Nov  7 00:47 myps
 * 
 * 
 * --Michael
 * 
 * --
 * Michael Graff <explorer@vorpal.com>       NetBSD is the way to go!
 * PGP key on a key-server near you!         Rayshade the world!
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * 
 */

#undef AUTHOR	/* "explorer@vorpal.com ("Michael Graff")" */



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