cp -p

[Noel L Yap]

I feel that "cp -p" should not ignore the umask (although I see that this is the
behaviour of Solaris's cp, too) because:
   Even if the user chmod's the file(s) afterwards, there is still a window of
   possibly excessive permissions.
   Users who wish to have the current behaviour can set their umask before the
   cp, then reset it afterwards.

This is the patch to "fix" the problem:
$ diff -c src/cp.c~ src/cp.c
*** src/cp.c~       Sat Sep 19 13:09:23 1998
--- src/cp.c        Fri Nov  3 09:16:21 2000
***************
*** 773,781 ****

    x.backup_type = (make_backups ? get_version (version) : none);

-   if (x.preserve_chmod_bits == 1)
-     x.umask_kill = 0777777;
-
    /* The key difference between -d (--no-dereference) and not is the version
       of `stat' to call.  */

--- 773,778 ----

Noel



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