ACLs and cp

Peter J. Holzer hjp at wsr.ac.at
Fri Jan 14 10:04:53 GMT 2000


On 2000-01-13 15:13:30 -0800, James Buster wrote:
> On Jan 13,  8:16pm, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> } What do you do on Irix?
> 
> Irix cp doesn't preserve ACLs.

Solaris cp does preserve the complete ACL if the file has an extended
ACL. If it only has the minimal ACL, the umask is applied (somewhat
inconsistent, IMHO).

	hp

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