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| author | Ondřej Vašík <ovasik@redhat.com> | 2009-02-17 15:53:39 +0100 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2009-02-18 15:27:10 +0100 |
| commit | 8c243ff965d477a89582a1b329923516a4d64668 (patch) | |
| tree | b0b9d6e5c1d4f3b9aa0134ffe327b1c9ddec4aed /NEWS | |
| parent | 86cef85b3671ed0a14a444eef3b6cb07fa26ee64 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-8c243ff965d477a89582a1b329923516a4d64668.tar.xz | |
cp: -a now preserves SELinux context, with reduced diagnostics
* copy.c (copy_reg): Reduce SELinux context diagnostics for 'cp -a'.
(copy_internal): Likewise
* copy.h (cp_options): Add boolean reduce_diagnostics.
* cp.c (usage): Say that --archive (-a) behaves like -dR --preserve=all.
(cp_option_init): Initialize added reduce_diagnostics.
(main): Add reduce_diagnostics for the -a option, and preserve SELinux
context, if possible.
* mv.c (cp_options_init): Initialize new cp_options booleans.
* install.c (cp_option_init): Likewise.
* NEWS: Mention those behaviour changes.
* doc/coreutils.texi: Document --preserve=context, document that
diagnostics are not shown for failures of non-mandatory attributes
(just SELinux at the moment).
* tests/cp/cp-a-selinux: Check not only failures, but succesful use
of preserving SELinux context in cp.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- Add extended attribute support available on certain filesystems like ext2 and XFS. - cp: Tries to copy xattrs when --preserve=xattr specified + cp: Tries to copy xattrs when --preserve=xattr or --preserve=all specified mv: Always tries to copy xattrs install: Never copies xattrs @@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- cp uses much less memory in some situations + cp -a now correctly tries to preserve SELinux context (announced in 6.9.90), + doesn't inform about failure, unlike with --preserve=all + du --files0-from=FILE no longer reads all of FILE into RAM before processing the first file name |