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From: Mike Stump <mikestump@comcast.net>
To: Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, Arnaud Charlet <charlet@adacore.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [ada, build] Ignore cp -p failures during Ada make install
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 17:13:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <FED62B33-CE0A-4DEC-B218-200AD3B77560@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ydd4n1h5omy.fsf@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>

On Apr 25, 2014, at 10:01 AM, Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> wrote:
> Agreed that this is ugly: ACL support in GNU coreutils has long been a
> total mess; no idea if it has improved very recently.

So, are there ACLs on these files?  If so, why?  If no ACLs, I fail to see how anything can error out no matter how poorly written it is.

What about cp a b && touch -r a b?  Seems safer, seem portable enough.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-25 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-25 13:45 Rainer Orth
2014-04-25 17:02 ` Mike Stump
2014-04-25 17:04   ` Rainer Orth
2014-04-25 17:13     ` Mike Stump [this message]
2014-04-25 17:20       ` Rainer Orth
2014-04-25 17:34         ` Mike Stump
2014-04-25 17:49 ` Arnaud Charlet
2014-04-25 18:20   ` Rainer Orth
2014-04-25 19:05   ` Rainer Orth

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