GNU bug report logs - #31675
Existing directories and files permissions are not being kept intact

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Gunjan Gupta <viraniac <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 07:41:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Gunjan Gupta <viraniac <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Existing directories and files permissions are not being kept intact
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 09:20:42 +0530

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Hi,

Suppose I have the following directory structure

/
| - destination (mode=0755)
     | - dir (mode=0755)
          | - file.txt (mode=0644)
| - source
     | - dir (mode=0755)
          | - file.txt (mode=0644)

My user has a umask of 0077. Now if I run the following cp command

cp -aR --no-preserve=mode /source/* /destination

I think the mode of destination/dir should stay as 0755 but it changes to
0700. Is this expected?

I am using coreutils 8.26-3 on Debian Stretch

Thanks & Regards
Gunjan Gupta

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