From: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 07:08:51 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: NEWS: mention that cp -p copies permissions more portably
X-Git-Tag: v6.12~5
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6c9b50532965ef84536b2dcfc4578fbaf9ec38d8;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

NEWS: mention that cp -p copies permissions more portably

Based on wording suggested by Bruno Haible.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8cee7f5fa7..833112aa7e 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.