Bug 25879

On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 06:34:21PM +0200, Amir wrote:
> 
> >Number:         25879
> >Category:       bin
> >Synopsis:       cp showing errors he shouldn't show.
> >Originator:     Amir
> >Release:        FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386
> >Organization:
> APF
> >Environment:
> 
> 	I'm using 4.2-stable from Mon Feb 26 07:05:56 IST 2001
> 
> >Description:
> 
> 	/bin/cp showing error he shouldn't show when copying with -p flag
> 
> >How-To-Repeat:
> 
> # ls -lo /usr/bin/login
> -r-sr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  schg 20436 Feb 25 19:06 /usr/bin/login
> # cp -p /usr/bin/login /tmp/login
> cp: /tmp/login: Operation not permitted
> # ls -lo /tmp/login
> -r-sr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  schg 20436 Feb 25 19:06 /tmp/login
> #

The 'operation not permitted' was a result of cp trying to set
the modification time of the file *after* setting the schg flag.
I submitted a PR about this quite a while ago, but a consensus
was not reached on how to fix it.  If you're interested, talk
to David Malone (dwmalone@FreeBSD.org) about PR bin/20646,
or examine the bin/20646 audit trail at:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=20646

G'luck,
Peter

-- 
This sentence was in the past tense.

Comment 2 Peter Pentchev 2001-03-17 17:02:56 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Duplicate (kind of) of bin/20646.