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Re: cp info/man page: cp -p add: 'often must be root to preserve owner'
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: cp info/man page: cp -p add: 'often must be root to preserve owner' |
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Sat, 13 Oct 2001 11:00:40 +0200 |
> From: Dan Jacobson <address@hidden>
> Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
> Date: 13 Oct 2001 03:55:25 +0800
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> The cp info/man page or its footnote needs to add a note saying that the
> owner etc. won't be preserved if you're not root on many systems,
Really? What exactly did you type at the shell's prompt to invoke
`cp', and which attributes were not preserved? And on what OS was
that?