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Existing directories and files permissions are not being kept intact

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Gunjan Gupta <viraniac <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 31675 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31675: Existing directories and files permissions are not being kept intact
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2018 16:28:52 -0700

On 03/06/18 15:43, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Actually looking more, this is a relatively recent change:
> https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=v8.19-145-g24ebca6
> 
> Also in retrospect, using --no-preserve=mode should
> have no guarantees on the mode bits of the destination.
> So it's probably best to leave existing mode bits in place.
> 
> Let me see if I can come up with a patch...

I pushed a fix in:
https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=5e7b892

thanks,
Pádraig

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