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bug#5917: [PATCH] doc: mention Linux capabilities are maintained by cp/m


From: Pádraig Brady
Subject: bug#5917: [PATCH] doc: mention Linux capabilities are maintained by cp/mv
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 01:25:41 +0100
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commit d047ee7da7f1b9a36ea34c7d064334900b15aac6
Author: Pádraig Brady <address@hidden>
Date:   Sat Apr 10 01:05:39 2010 +0100

    doc: mention Linux capabilities are maintained by cp/mv

    * doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Mention that
    "Capabilities" are maintained when implemented
    using extended attributes.
    (mv invocation): Mention ACLs etc. are maintained
    due to xattrs being copied.

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 2a5f4d4..3b26022 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -7512,7 +7512,7 @@ if the preserving of SELinux security context is not 
succesful.
 @itemx xattr
 Preserve extended attributes if @command{cp} is built with xattr support,
 and xattrs are supported and enabled on your file system.
-If SELinux context and/or ACLs are implemented using xattrs,
+If SELinux context, ACLs or Capabilities are implemented using xattrs,
 they are preserved by this option as well.
 @itemx all
 Preserve all file attributes.
@@ -8274,7 +8274,8 @@ the destination partition and the second and third would 
be left on the
 original partition.

 @cindex extended attributes, xattr
address@hidden always tries to copy extended attributes (xattr).
address@hidden always tries to copy extended attributes (xattr), which may
+include SELinux context, ACLs or Capabilities.

 @cindex prompting, and @command{mv}
 If a destination file exists but is normally unwritable, standard input







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