Re: justifying --context=CTX (-Z) for upstream coreutils, like mkdir

[James Antill <jantill@redhat.com>]

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On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 15:58 +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> For a little context on why, ...
> I'm also considering the xattr patch that's been floating around for
> years.  Currently it's part of SuSE's coreutils patch set.  It ensures
> that mv and cp -p preserve any (selected) XATTR attributes.

 Note that I did a patch, which is different from the SuSE patch ... it
doesn't include the regexp handling but mv does Do The Right
Thing(tm)[1]:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201088
http://people.redhat.com/jantill/patches/coreutils-5.97-xattrs.patch

 It also makes preservation of xattrs a hard error, unless it's because
of ENOTSUPP ... and there's no way to turn just preservation of xattrs
off (would you want this before accepting upstream)?


[1] If you "mv src x/dst" and x is a different fs, then you need to
remove all the xattrs from dst so you _only_ get the ones from src ...
which is what rename would do.

-- 
James Antill <jantill@redhat.com>

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