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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2010-03-26 11:19:16 +0000
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2010-03-26 14:19:37 +0000
commit4c38625ef32f0d7941b4dbe521a1e34d12f17608 (patch)
tree54a439d10972e57c37d4a324b5e1438874d6d8eb /doc
parent946359f1010490dd2f4136d4477d7baa8cd752b3 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-4c38625ef32f0d7941b4dbe521a1e34d12f17608.tar.xz
doc: fix info on cp --preserve=all, which does _not_ give xattr warnings
The info docs have been inaccurate since 2009-04-17, commit 941bd482, "mv: ignore xattr-preservation failure when not supported by filesystem" * doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Say that cp --preserve=all does _not_ output errors when failing to copy xattrs.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/coreutils.texi5
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index e7c09c5e1..2a5f4d4bc 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -7344,7 +7344,7 @@ directory structure; i.e., @samp{ls -U} may list the entries in a copied
directory in a different order).
Try to preserve SELinux security context and extended attributes (xattr),
but ignore any failure to do that and print no corresponding diagnostic.
-Equivalent to @option{-dR --preserve=all} with the reduced diagnostics.
+Equivalent to @option{-dR --preserve=all}.
@item -b
@itemx @w{@kbd{--backup}[=@var{method}]}
@@ -7518,8 +7518,7 @@ they are preserved by this option as well.
Preserve all file attributes.
Equivalent to specifying all of the above, but with the difference
that failure to preserve SELinux security context or extended attributes
-does not change @command{cp}'s exit status.
-@command{cp} does diagnose such failures.
+does not change @command{cp}'s exit status, or produce error messages.
@end table
Using @option{--preserve} with no @var{attribute_list} is equivalent