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[PATCH] doc: fix info to say cp -a does _not_ diagnose xattr failures

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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
Cc: Ondřej Vaš, Report bugs to <bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org>, ík <ovasik <at> redhat.com>
Subject: bug#5775: [PATCH] doc: fix info to say cp -a does _not_ diagnose xattr failures
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:23:40 +0200

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 11/04/10 19:31, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> ...
>>> Well the patch _reduces_ warnings so that they're only
>>> shown in case 3 above. They should probably also
>>> be output in case 5 also which currently doesn't happen
>>> as explained above.
>>
>> Yes, but I'm convinced that those warnings have some
>> value at least some of the time, so I'm very leery of
>> suppressing them, even if the rules for when they're
>> emitted are inconsistent and hard to describe.
>
> OK fair enough, I'll push this doc clarification soon
> which attempts to better describe what's happening.
...
> commit c420cfef77b9173a754806dc49deacabb436044f
> Author: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
> Date:   Mon Apr 12 08:46:37 2010 +0100
>
>     doc: clarify when cp and mv output xattr warnings
>
>     The 2010-03-26 commit, 4c38625e, "doc: fix info on cp --preserve..."
>     was not entirely correct as cp --preserve=all does produce some
>     xattr warnings.
>
>     * src/copy.h: Update and clarify the comments for reduce_diagnostics
>     and require_preserve_{xattr,context}.
>     * doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Update the -a and
>     --preserve=xattr,context options to say when and which
>     xattr warnings are output.
>     (mv invocation): Mention that some warnings are output
>     when preserving xattrs.

Nice work.  Thank you.

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