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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | bug#28341: RFE: focusing on source vs. symptoms (reducing duplicate error ouput) |
| Date: | Mon, 4 Sep 2017 10:38:25 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 |
L A Walsh wrote:
If Target file system doesn't support preserving permissions, it would be more useful to issue 1 error message for the _source_ of the problem (the directory)
That would be more useful in some circumstances. However, I expect some people are used to the longstanding behavior, which is more in line with what POSIX requires. We could add an option to supress chatter, though.
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