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bug#5917: [PATCH] doc: mention Linux capabilities are maintained by cp/m
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
bug#5917: [PATCH] doc: mention Linux capabilities are maintained by cp/mv |
Date: |
Sun, 11 Apr 2010 14:53:37 +0200 |
Pádraig Brady wrote:
> 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
Thanks. That looks fine, but please do s/maintained/preserved/ in the log.
> * 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