Re: dired-do-rename changes owner when used by root

[Dan Jacobson]

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.