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


From: Ondřej Vašík
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: cp: make -a option preserve SELinux context and xattrs with reduced diagnostics
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:52:05 +0100

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.
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.

Greetings,
         Ondrej

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