ACLs and cp

[James Buster]

On Jan 13,  1:02am, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
} I have a question concerning the cp utility.
} 
} DS17 specifies that these tools retain the ACLs of files.

I assume DS17 means 'Draft Specification 17'.

} Now how does the umask affect the behavior (and how does a default ACL)?
} Should cp simply copy the permissions 1-1, or should it copy the
} permissions, minus those masked out by the umask?

It should probably do the latter. An acl_set_file() followed by chmod()
would do the right thing.

} The GNU fileutils do a chmod() with the umask bits masked out after copying:

Irix cp also does that.

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