Bug 353554

Summary:	odd permissions when copy file from CD
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kio	Reporter:	Salvo "LtWorf" Tomaselli <tiposchi>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KIO Bugs <kio-bugs-null>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	kdelibs-bugs-null, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.47.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian unstable
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Salvo "LtWorf" Tomaselli 2015-10-05 07:40:48 UTC

My reported version is 5.14.0-1 (debian package) which doesn't seem available in the list of versions here.

I have copied some files from some CDs and they had permissions: -r--------
which is not what my umask would give them.

I then had to change the permissions to allow writing.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Copy some files from a CD to home directory

Comment 1 David Faure 2015-10-10 08:06:00 UTC

umask doesn't matter because these aren't new files, they are the result of a copy.
Basically KIO emulates `cp -a`, i.e. preserves permissions.
cp has command line options to choose whether to preserve or not, drag-n-drop doesn't ;)
So it's tricky to guess what the user wants. In your case you obviously didn't want readonly files, but in general, preserving permissions when copying is seen as a feature rather than a bug. So I'm not sure how to "magically make it right for everyone in all cases".

Comment 2 Christoph Feck 2015-12-03 20:44:36 UTC

Maybe it is possible to find out if the source file system is mounted "read-only", resulting in all files to have the "read-only" attribute.