From 6c9b50532965ef84536b2dcfc4578fbaf9ec38d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 09:08:51 +0200
Subject: NEWS: mention that cp -p copies permissions more portably

Based on wording suggested by Bruno Haible.
---
 NEWS | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

(limited to 'NEWS')

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8cee7f5fa..833112aa7 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
   chcon, runcon: --help output now includes the bug-reporting address
 
+  cp -p copies permissions more portably.  For example, on MacOS X 10.5,
+  "cp -p some-fifo some-file" no longer fails while trying to copy the
+  permissions from the some-fifo argument.
+
   id with no options now prints the SELinux context only when invoked
   with no USERNAME argument.
 
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