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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2010-04-10 01:05:39 +0100
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2010-04-11 16:37:40 +0100
commitbe9a42e7ac4905a84fa18709c76aaadbfbe6108b (patch)
treebe214f6a34a35d4108487fc01856f923445797fc /doc
parent20a5a60c61a2a9f6b386b33533203c180de97a6c (diff)
downloadcoreutils-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.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
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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