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

From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 14:53:37 +0200

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> commit d047ee7da7f1b9a36ea34c7d064334900b15aac6
> Author: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
> 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
> -@command{mv} always tries to copy extended attributes (xattr).
> +@command{mv} 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