Bug 91331 – dos2unix doesn't preserve mode

Bug 91331 - dos2unix doesn't preserve mode

Summary:	dos2unix doesn't preserve mode

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification:	Retired
Component:	dos2unix (Show other bugs)
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Version:	1.0
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Tim Waugh
QA Contact:	Ben Levenson
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Blocks:	FC3Target 183627
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Reported:	2003-05-21 11:13 EDT by hjl
Modified:	2007-07-16 03:56 EDT (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2006-01-31 12:26:53 EST
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A patch to preserve mode (847 bytes, patch) 2003-05-21 11:14 EDT, hjl	no flags	Details \| Diff
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Description hjl 2003-05-21 11:13:04 EDT

[hjl@gnu-d tmp]$ touch foo
[hjl@gnu-d tmp]$ chmod +x foo
[hjl@gnu-d tmp]$ ls -l foo
-rwxr-xr-x    1 hjl      hjl             0 May 21 08:14 foo
[hjl@gnu-d tmp]$ dos2unix foo
dos2unix: converting file foo to UNIX format ...
[hjl@gnu-d tmp]$ ls -l foo
-rw-------    1 hjl      hjl             0 May 21 08:14 foo

Comment 1 hjl 2003-05-21 11:14:16 EDT

Created attachment 91860 [details]
A patch to preserve mode

Comment 2 Mike A. Harris 2003-05-21 11:29:50 EDT

*** Bug 55183 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Anders Kaseorg 2003-11-05 23:03:36 EST

I think it's worth pointing out that the user and group aren't
preserved either, though that's probably harder to fix.

Comment 4 Miloslav Trmac 2004-02-06 13:19:07 EST

*** Bug 112710 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 David Anderson 2004-08-10 13:39:34 EDT

This problem also occurs with the unix2dos program. I also noticed 
that it will sometimes create temporary files in /roots directory 
which seems like some strange activity for this kind of application?

Comment 6 Mike A. Harris 2004-09-26 05:04:58 EDT

*** Bug 132145 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Mike A. Harris 2004-10-06 16:23:36 EDT

Thanks, added fix to dos2unix-3.1-20 in rawhide.

Comment 8 Tim Powers 2005-05-19 20:35:33 EDT

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2005-195.html

Comment 10 Mahesh Tawari 2007-07-12 15:51:02 EDT

Looks like this bug is not fixed for new file created using  -n option

-rw-r--r--    1 xyz dvl            25 Jul 12 12:37 test.txt

unix2dos -n test.txt test2.txt

-rw-------    1 xyz  dvl            32 Jul 12 12:39 test2.txt

Read permission for other and group is missing for new file test2.

Comment 11 Tim Waugh 2007-07-13 07:02:05 EDT

I think this is a separate problem: when creating a new file it ought to set the
initial permissions to 0666 and let the kernel umask mask off the inappropriate
bits.  Please file a new bug report.

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