[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#466370: strange... now I can't confirm anymore

[Patrick Winnertz]

Hello,
I tried this directly after your bugreport and I was able to confirm 
this... but now (build from the svn) it looks like this:

energy:/tmp# ls -l
insgesamt 100
drwx------ 4 root   root    1024 20. Feb 08:10 1659576503
-rw-r--r-- 1 winnie winnie 59271 20. Feb 13:43 file.c
drwx------ 2 winnie winnie  1024 20. Feb 08:11 gpg-TZ7ZeG
drwx------ 2 winnie winnie  1024 20. Feb 13:47 kde-winnie
drwx------ 3 winnie winnie  1024 20. Feb 13:46 ksocket-winnie
drwx------ 2 root   root   12288  9. Aug 2007  lost+found
drwx------ 2 root   root    1024 20. Feb 12:54 mc-root
drwx------ 2 winnie winnie  1024 20. Feb 08:11 ssh-kUplEp4125
-rw-r--r-- 1 winnie winnie 21582 18. Feb 17:00 test.txt  <----
-rw------- 1 winnie winnie     0 20. Feb 12:50 tmp.EoDgr16476
-rw------- 1 winnie winnie     0 20. Feb 13:43 tmp.KLBXx26546
-rw------- 1 winnie winnie     0 20. Feb 12:23 tmp.oVxjop8419
energy:/tmp# rm test.txt
energy:/tmp# energy:/tmp# ls -l
insgesamt 100
drwx------ 4 root   root    1024 20. Feb 08:10 1659576503
-rw-r--r-- 1 winnie winnie 59271 20. Feb 13:43 file.c
drwx------ 2 winnie winnie  1024 20. Feb 08:11 gpg-TZ7ZeG
drwx------ 2 winnie winnie  1024 20. Feb 13:47 kde-winnie
drwx------ 3 winnie winnie  1024 20. Feb 13:46 ksocket-winnie
drwx------ 2 root   root   12288  9. Aug 2007  lost+found
drwx------ 2 root   root    1024 20. Feb 12:54 mc-root
drwx------ 2 winnie winnie  1024 20. Feb 08:11 ssh-kUplEp4125
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root   21582 18. Feb 17:00 test.txt    <----
-rw------- 1 winnie winnie     0 20. Feb 12:50 tmp.EoDgr16476
-rw------- 1 winnie winnie     0 20. Feb 13:43 tmp.KLBXx26546
-rw------- 1 winnie winnie     0 20. Feb 12:23 tmp.oVxjop8419

Please note that I was running mc as root and I was copying something from 
my own homedir (test.txt) into /tmp. mc was running in the background 
(switched with STRG-o to the console). 
The first time I leave the preserve attributes marked.
The second time I unmarked it.

So I can't reproduce this. (Please note that a chown wouldn't work if the 
file previously belong to root, since your user won't be allowed to chown 
it to root:root. So this feature basically only works if you are root (or 
another privilieged user) which is allowed to chown the file after copy 
(this is what mc is doing here if you check preserve attributes).

Can you please try to reproduce this, and/or stating that you was working 
as a unprivileged user so that I'll can close/work further on this bug?

Thanks in advance.

Greetings
Winnie

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