Bug 15853

Summary:	'cp' doesn't keep destination permissions
Product:	Busybox	Reporter:	fulalas123
Component:	Standard Compliance	Assignee:	unassigned
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	busybox-cvs
Priority:	P5
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description fulalas123 2023-11-15 12:10:18 UTC

Issue: 'cp -rf' doesn't keep destination permissions.

How to replicate:
	1- have a 644 permission test.txt file in /etc/xdg/autostart
	2- have a 755 permission test.txt file in /tmp
	3- call busybox using: busybox cp -rf /tmp /etc/xdg/autostart/test.txt

Expected behavior: the new file copied should replace the original one and keep the original file permissions.

Current behavior: the new file copied replaces the original one but it also replaces its permission, and that's not the behavior of cp from coreutils (https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/).

I'm using busybox 1.36.1

Comment 1 fulalas123 2023-11-15 18:31:53 UTC

I tried but failed to edit the issue because there's a tiny error in the steps to replicate. Here it goes:

1- have a 644 permission test.txt file in /etc/xdg/autostart
2- have a 755 permission test.txt file in /tmp
3- call busybox using: busybox cp /tmp/test.txt /etc/xdg/autostart