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Re: copy-directory
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David Kastrup |
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Re: copy-directory |
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Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:57:22 +0200 |
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Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>> Or shall we remove PRESERVE-UID-GID from `copy-directory'?
>
> I guess we can remove it for now,
I think that UID/GID should transparently be preserved when copying
directories whenever possible (in particular when using /sudo:: methods
or similar). I don't think that there is an important usage case for
"don't preserve UID/GID even if you could": it would likely imply
copying a tree and turning it into root/root possession on today's
systems.
I would like to add that before the time of disk quotas, the owner of a
file was always able to do chown/chgrp on files (this cleared the setuid
bit for security reasons, but that was it). It was the usual way of
passing data to somebody else (and nobody other).
--
David Kastrup
- copy-directory, Michael Albinus, 2009/10/04
- Re: copy-directory, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/10/04
- Re: copy-directory, Stefan Monnier, 2009/10/04
- Re: copy-directory, Michael Albinus, 2009/10/04
- Re: copy-directory, Stefan Monnier, 2009/10/04
- Re: copy-directory, Michael Albinus, 2009/10/05
- Re: copy-directory,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: copy-directory, Michael Albinus, 2009/10/06
- Re: copy-directory, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/10/06
Re: copy-directory, Michael Albinus, 2009/10/04