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


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: cp: make -a option preserve SELinux context and xattrs with reduced diagnostics
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:29:26 +0100

Ondřej Vašík <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> When will the libattr fix be in F10?
>
> Upstream report:
> http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2009-02/msg00331.html
>
> Talked with Fedora attr maintainer and he will do an update for F-10 and
> Rawhide in day or two - upon the upstream reaction. So it should be in
> F-10 early next week.

Great!

>> If you think a libattr fix *will* make it to F10 this week, then
>> please ensure that no other major distribution is affected.
>
> 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.

Thanks!




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