From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269634AbUHZUsP (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:48:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269435AbUHZUi7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:38:59 -0400 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:42422 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S269622AbUHZUfL (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:35:11 -0400 Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 From: Lee Revell To: Rik van Riel Cc: Denis Vlasenko , Matt Mackall , Nicholas Miell , Wichert Akkerman , Jeremy Allison , Andrew Morton , Spam , torvalds@osdl.org, reiser@namesys.com, hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel , flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1093552515.5678.93.camel@krustophenia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:35:15 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 b does not preserve following file properties even on standard > > UNIX filesystems: name,owner,group,permissions. > > Losing permissions is one thing. Annoying, mostly. > cat b does preserve permissions - the permissions of b. I always considered this a feature. Lee