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doc: fix info on cp --preserve=all, which does _not_ give xattr warnings

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The info docs have been inaccurate since 2009-04-17, commit 941bd482,
"mv: ignore xattr-preservation failure when not supported by filesystem"
* doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Say that cp --preserve=all
does _not_ output errors when failing to copy xattrs.
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Pádraig Brady
2010-03-26 11:19:16 +00:00
parent 946359f101
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@@ -7344,7 +7344,7 @@ directory structure; i.e., @samp{ls -U} may list the entries in a copied
directory in a different order).
Try to preserve SELinux security context and extended attributes (xattr),
but ignore any failure to do that and print no corresponding diagnostic.
Equivalent to @option{-dR --preserve=all} with the reduced diagnostics.
Equivalent to @option{-dR --preserve=all}.
@item -b
@itemx @w{@kbd{--backup}[=@var{method}]}
@@ -7518,8 +7518,7 @@ they are preserved by this option as well.
Preserve all file attributes.
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.
does not change @command{cp}'s exit status, or produce error messages.
@end table
Using @option{--preserve} with no @var{attribute_list} is equivalent