[CentOS] Antwort: umask not functioning with cp command

Wed Jun 23 12:16:13 UTC 2010
John Doe <jdmls at yahoo.com>

From: Andreas Reschke <Andreas.Reschke at behrgroup.com>
>> James Corteciano <james at linux-source.org>  
>> $ umask 0002 
>> $ mkdir test 
>> $ ls -ld test 
>> drwxrwxr-x 2 user user 4096 Jun 23 19:04 test/ 
>> $ls -ld content 
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Jun 23 19:29 content 
>> $ cp -r content test/ 
>> $ls -ld test/content 
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Jun 23 19:29 content 
>> My question is, how can I make content directory permission mode to
>> 775 if I do cp inside the test directory? 
> in this case, you must copy with cp -p (or better
> -a same -dpR) to preserve all atributes. 
> man cp

-p preserves the source permissions...
In this case, he wants the target directory to inherit its permissions from its parent...
And I think Unix doesn't support the idea of inherited permissions (except for the sgid bit).
Is running a simple 'chmod 775 test/content', after the cp, not an option...?

JD