Bug 132146 - unix2dos doesn't preserve the file permissions
Summary: unix2dos doesn't preserve the file permissions
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 91332
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: unix2dos
Version: 2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mike A. Harris
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-09-09 07:40 UTC by Péter, Soós
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-02-21 19:05:32 UTC
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Description Péter, Soós 2004-09-09 07:40:36 UTC 
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Description of problem:
It seems like unix2dos doesn't preserve the file permissions (group
read/write):

$ ls -l proba.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 sp sp 39 Sep  9 09:24 proba.txt
$ unix2dos proba.txt
unix2dos: converting file proba.txt to DOS format ...
$ ls -l proba.txt
-rw-------  1 sp sp 37 Sep  9 09:24 proba.txt


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dos2unix-3.1-17

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a file with permissions 664
2. dos2unix it

    

Actual Results:  dos2unix doesn't preserve the file permissions

Expected Results:  dos2unix preserves the file permissions

Additional info:
Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2004-09-26 09:05:30 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 91332 ***
Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 19:05:32 UTC 
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.
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