cp -p

[Chuck Swiger]

On Feb 7, 2008, at 10:42 AM, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
> From HostClient:
>
>> ls -al /share/
> drwxr-sr-x  4 User   www           512 Feb  7 19:23 www
>
>> touch /share/www/foo
>> ls -l /share/www/foo
> -rw-r-----  1 user  www  0 Feb  7 19:39 /share/www/foo
>
> (group id works)

Right, this is the BSD setgid semantics one would expect.

>> touch bar
>> ls -l bar
> -rw-r-----  1 user  user  0 Feb  7 19:40 bar
>
>> mv bar /share/www/
>> ls -l /share/www/bar
> -rw-r-----  1 user  user  0 Feb  7 19:40 /share/www/bar
>                    ~~~~
> Shouldn't it be www?

Does the remote system used here implement the BSD semantics?  If it  
does, I would expect this to work; if it doesn't, then no, I wouldn't  
expect it to work.

-- 
-Chuck