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| author | Ondřej Vašík <ovasik@redhat.com> | 2009-09-14 14:12:01 +0100 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2009-09-14 14:19:03 +0100 |
| commit | cca83fafa69eb26db458714830b77498b88af8a4 (patch) | |
| tree | 6802df397ac2c1c59ed50c58aed04d823b0d8e59 /NEWS | |
| parent | eb1299481aeda0c1b10d0186e00a088597e603a8 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-cca83fafa69eb26db458714830b77498b88af8a4.tar.xz | |
cp,mv: preserve extended attributes even for read-only files
* src/copy.c (copy_reg): Temporarily set u+rw on the destination file
to allow GNU/Linux to set xattrs.
* tests/misc/xattr: Test that change.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
Reported by Ernest N. Mamikonyan.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- * Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?] +** Bug fixes + + cp --preserve=xattr and --archive now preserve extended attributes even + when the source file doesn't have write access. + [bug introduced in coreutils-7.1] + ** Changes in behavior id no longer prints SELinux " context=..." when the POSIXLY_CORRECT |