On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 03:07:55PM -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>Keeping a previous file's setuid (or setgid) is wrong.

I hear you, but the -p flag does address that, cp and preserve
permissions vs copy data not attributes.

but it reminds me of something I've wondered about. is there
a place for a atomic copy in base, eg copy to tmp file and
rename to target? That would accomplish copy with respect to
uid/gid/umask/etc.

// George


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