Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 11:30:59 -0800 From: David Brodbeck <gull@gull.us> To: Joe Kraft <jvk-list@thekrafts.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cpio misunderstanding? Message-ID: <AANLkTikP8Wb%2BmpDQpud32sgdVRV3wdfbfhPQvvUkwcey@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <if3fi6$2k4$1@dough.gmane.org> References: <if2rdo$tk5$1@dough.gmane.org> <201012242042.21257.ken@mthelicon.com> <if3fi6$2k4$1@dough.gmane.org>
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On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Joe Kraft <jvk-list@thekrafts.org> wrote: > OK, now I know what's going on. =A0I just don't know why. =A0The immutabl= e flag > was set on all these files, if you clear it cpio will happily copy them t= o > the new directory. Does cpio attempt to preserve flags? Since the error is "could not create," I'm wondering if it's trying to set the same flags on the copy of the file and failing to do so.
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