Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Lee Revell
2004-08-26T20:35:15Z

On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 07:42, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
>
> > > I like cat < a > b. You can keep your progress.
> >
> > cat <a >b does not preserve following file properties even on standard
> > UNIX filesystems: name,owner,group,permissions.
>
> Losing permissions is one thing. Annoying, mostly.
>

cat <a >b does preserve permissions - the permissions of b. I always
considered this a feature.

Lee