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| From: | Remy Blank <remy.blank@×××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to copy /* ? | ||
| Date: | Tue, 28 Dec 2010 09:20:37 | ||
| Message-Id: | ifca1q$dfn$1@dough.gmane.org | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to copy /* ? by Marc Blumentritt |
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| 1 | Marc Blumentritt wrote: |
| 2 | > Ah, OK. Didn't know this. Do you know, why it does work like this? |
| 3 | |
| 4 | It initially sets the permissions to 600 presumably to limit access to |
| 5 | an unfinished copy from other users. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | The mtime must be set after copying the contents, because adding a file |
| 8 | or directory changes the mtime of the parent. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | > And does cp -a work in the same way? |
| 11 | |
| 12 | Probably yes, for the same reasons, but I haven't checked. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | -- Remy |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to copy /* ? | Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> |