Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This blog > > http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/03/05/the-state-of-backup-and-cloning-tools-under-mac-os-x/ > has an explanation of all the kinds of file metadata that exists on MacOS X: > resource forks, creation date, ACLs, extended attributes. > > Some of these (ACLs, extended attributes) also exist on Linux. > > Should "cp -p --preserve=all" copy these metadata?
That is a worthy goal of any program that professes to copy. > Should --preserve have a possible value indicating extended attributes? I suppose that depends on how useful and/or generally applicable such an option would be. Considering the small number of reports of cp failing to copy this type of attribute, I have not been inclined to work on it. But as usual, if fixing/extending this scratches your itch, and the patches are clean and maintainable, I'll probably go for it. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
