From: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:05:39 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: doc: mention that "capabilities" are preserved by cp/mv
X-Git-Tag: v8.5~16
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=be9a42e7ac4905a84fa18709c76aaadbfbe6108b;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

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.
---

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 2a5f4d4bc1..f549989c1b 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