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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2010-04-10 01:05:39 +0100 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2010-04-11 16:37:40 +0100 |
| commit | be9a42e7ac4905a84fa18709c76aaadbfbe6108b (patch) | |
| tree | be214f6a34a35d4108487fc01856f923445797fc | |
| parent | 20a5a60c61a2a9f6b386b33533203c180de97a6c (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-be9a42e7ac4905a84fa18709c76aaadbfbe6108b.tar.xz | |
doc: mention that "capabilities" are preserved by cp/mv
* doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Mention that
"capabilities" are preserved when implemented using
extended attributes.
(mv invocation): Mention ACLs etc. are maintained
due to xattrs being copied.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 2a5f4d4bc..f549989c1 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 |