https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=240146
Bug ID: 240146
Summary: 'man cp' does not discuss extended attributes; it
really should since even -p discards them!
Product: Documentation
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any
OS: Any
Status: New
Severity: Affects Many People
Priority: ---
Component: Manual Pages
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
The man page for 'cp' does not contain the word "extended" nor "attribute".
I was very surprised to see that even 'cp -p' apparently does not preserve the
extended attributes of a file.
I'd argue 'cp -p' behaviour is wrong, but at the very least it should be
documented.
By contrast, the macOS 10.13 man page says: "-p Cause cp to preserve the
following attributes of each source file in the copy: modification time, access
time, file flags, file mode, user ID, and group ID, as allowed by permissions.
Access Control Lists (ACLs) and Extended Attributes (EAs), including resource
forks, will also be preserved."
A simple sentence to warn that cp -p will blow away EAs would help. We're
talking about data loss here. :(
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
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