bug#12014: cp -p fails to preserve permissions on sshfs

[Assaf Gordon]

tags 12014 notabug
close  12014
stop

(triaging old bugs)

Hello,

On 21/07/12 09:35 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 07/19/2012 06:10 PM, Jared Henley wrote:
> > Is there some security reason why the permissions fall back to 600 when the
> >
> > chown fails
>
> Absolutely.  The user has indicated the desire for
> a file to be owned by U with permissions P,[...]
[...]
> Presumably the --preserve option could be used
> to get the behavior you want.

With no further follow-ups, I'm closing this bug.
Discussion can continue by replying to this thread.

-assaf