am I missing something, or are permissions always preserved?

[Dave Dykstra]

When preserve_perms is not set, rsync sets a default permission based on
the original permissions and the umask.  A comment in flist.c says that is
what GNU cp does, so that's why rsync does it.   Comments in generator.c
and receiver.c indicate that if a file already exists and preserve_perms
isn't set, the original permissions should be preserved.

- Dave

On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 12:30:55PM -0800, Ben wrote:
> They seem to be for me, even when I don't pass in the --perms flag. This
> is a problem because I'm rsyncing to a samba mount with fixed
> permissions.
> 
> Looking at rsync.c (for version 2.5.5) starting at line 204, I see this
> code snippet:
> 
> #ifdef HAVE_CHMOD
>     if (!S_ISLNK(st->st_mode)) {
>         if (st->st_mode != file->mode) {
>             updated = 1;
>             if (do_chmod(fname,file->mode) != 0) {
>                 rprintf(FERROR,"failed to set permissions on %s : %s\n",
>                     fname,strerror(errno));
>                 return 0;
>             }
>         }
>     }
> #endif
> 
> I would have expected to see a test for the setting of perserve_perms,
> but it's not there. Is this a bug or is there there a reason
> perserve_perms isn't checked?
> 
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