https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=240157
Bug ID: 240157 Summary: cp has no ability to preserve extended attributes when copying a file Product: Base System Version: CURRENT Hardware: Any OS: Any Status: New Severity: Affects Many People Priority: --- Component: bin Assignee: b...@freebsd.org Reporter: s...@rogue-research.com I was very surprised to see that neither 'cp -p' nor 'cp -a' preserve the extended attributes of a file. example: root@freenas[/test]# lsextattr user A.txt A.txt DosStream.com.apple.TextEncoding:$DATA DosStream.AFP_Resource:$DATA DosStream.AFP_AfpInfo:$DATA DOSATTRIB DosStream.com.apple.lastuseddate#PS:$DATA root@freenas[/test]# cp -a A.txt A2.txt root@freenas[/test]# lsextattr user A2.txt A2.txt EAs sometimes contain important data, and there should surely be some kind of option to preserve them when copying a file. In contrast, macOS's cp -p does preserve EAs. See also #240146 for related bug against the cp man page for saying nothing. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-bugs-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"