tags 8767 + moreinfo thanks Ondrej Vasik wrote: > On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 15:20 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: >> On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 09:42 +0200, Ondrej Vasik wrote: >> > Could you please specify coreutils version where you experience the >> > issue? >> Sorry, forgot that. >> This was the corutils from Debian sid, which is currently 8.5. > > Thanks for specifying that ... current version is 8.12, but I think the > support in 8.5 was ready enough. > >> > but in the case of extended attributes and >> > SELinux context possible failure of preserving these attributes doesn't >> > change exit status. >> Oh that's bad,.. why? > > Because preserve=all and -a is too general and some filesystems might > not have support for it. Therefore failure might break old scripts. > Failures might be quite wordy, in addition. So cp -a / cp > --preserve=all /mv just tries to preserve as much as possible. > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-04/msg00174.html > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2010-03/msg00268.html > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2010-04/msg00039.html > > When you explicitly mention the attribute, you probably really want it, > so failure changes the exit status. > >> Can I get this behavious by using --preserve=context,xattr,all to REALLY >> preserve everything and get errors if this didn't work. > > Yes, preserve=context,xattr,all should make these attributes required. > >> > please try if using --preserve=xattr >> > shows an error. >> I did, but no error, no preservation. >> Also it's on the same filesystem (with user_xattr enabled,.. so there >> should be no problem). > > Ok, so it should not be caused by filesystem... could you please check > the strace of the cp for (f/l)getxattr? > > Greetings, > Ondrej
Hi Christoph, If this is still a problem for you, would you please provide strace output? If not, please let us know (and why!) and I'll close this ticket.
