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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index ba1e74e30..42234d36a 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -7262,7 +7262,10 @@ Preserve as much as possible of the structure and attributes of the original files in the copy (but do not attempt to preserve internal directory structure; i.e., @samp{ls -U} may list the entries in a copied directory in a different order). -Equivalent to @option{-dpR}. +Try to preserve SELinux security context, but ignore any failure to do that +and print no corresponding diagnostic. +This option does not preserve extended attributes(xattr) at the moment. +Equivalent to @option{-dR --preserve=all} with a few exceptions. @item -b @itemx @w{@kbd{--backup}[=@var{method}]} @@ -7404,6 +7407,9 @@ Preserve in the destination files any links between corresponding source files. @c Give examples illustrating how hard links are preserved. @c Also, show how soft links map to hard links with -L and -H. +@itemx context +Preserve SELinux security context of the file. @command{cp} will fail +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. @@ -7411,7 +7417,10 @@ If SELinux context and/or ACLs are implemented using xattrs, they are preserved by this option as well. @itemx all Preserve all file attributes. -Equivalent to specifying all of the above. +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. @end table Using @option{--preserve} with no @var{attribute_list} is equivalent |