From cca83fafa69eb26db458714830b77498b88af8a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ondřej Vašík <ovasik@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:12:01 +0100
Subject: 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.
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 NEWS | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

(limited to 'NEWS')

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 980fb543f..30f314449 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -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
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