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Re: dired-do-rename changes owner when used by root
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Dan Jacobson |
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Re: dired-do-rename changes owner when used by root |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Jun 2005 06:00:54 +0800 |
rms> What happens if you use M-x rename-file?
rms> Does it fail the same way?
Yes, when operating across disk partitions the owner is changed to
root. Same with dired-do-rename. On the same partition both are OK though.
dired-do-copy also changes the owner to root, even on the same
partition, even though it advertises that it uses cp -p in the
minibuffer. However the real Debian (GNU) cp -p would not do such a
thing.