Re: [PATCH]: cp: make -a option preserve SELinux context and xattrs with reduced diagnostics

[Ondřej Vašík]

Hello,

Jim Meyering wrote:
> Ondřej Vašík <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Jim Meyering wrote:
> >> Ondřej Vašík <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> > What about to split that into two patches? One for SELinux changes and
> >> > one for xattr changes (commited after 7.1) - to make it more safe - and
> >> > to give other distros more time to fix the leak...
> >> 
> >> That sounds even better.  I see that debian stable's libattr1-dev
> >> is at 1:2.4.43-2, which means it has the leak.
> >> Please do.
> >
> > Ok, split patches attached.
> 
> Thanks!  Looking at them now.
> 
> > Note: in the xattr patch there is no NEWS at the moment as it would
> > cause conflict when added after 7.1 release - I guess something like
> > "cp: -a option tries to preserve xattrs but doesn't inform about
> > failure" would be ok.

I guess it's time to add the amended cp-a-xattr patch... attached

Greetings,
         Ondrej

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