The following reply was made to PR bin/26860; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/26860 CVS commit: src/usr.bin/sort
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:53:25 +0000 (UTC)

 Module Name:	src
 Committed By:	jdolecek
 Date:		Mon Oct 23 19:53:25 UTC 2006
 
 Modified Files:
 	src/usr.bin/sort: sort.c
 
 Log Message:
 when using -o into file which already exists, copy the permissions
 of the original file to the new (sorted) file
 
 adresses PR bin/26860 by Michael van Elst
 
 
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 cvs rdiff -r1.43 -r1.44 src/usr.bin/sort/sort.c
 
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