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Michael Yep
myep at remotelink.com
Fri Aug 18 19:47:26 UTC 2006
Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 15:23:18 +0200,
> Jim Meyering <meyering at redhat.com> wrote:
>> At first, when I saw that the SELinux-enabled cp provides a new
>> --context=CTX option, I figured mv should have the same one, since
>> mv sometimes needs to perform a copy. But a better way to look at
>> that is to wonder if cp really needs the option. It's for _copying_
>> after all: preserving, not changing permissions or SELinux "labels".
>> When I raised the issue on the SELinux mailing list, most agreed that
>> neither mv nor cp need that option. Of course, regardless of whether
>> there are new options, mv should always attempt to preserve any existing
>> SELinux context, and cp should be able to do so, too.
>
> Note that cp doesn't copy (group) ownership and permissions (unmask is
> applied) by default. It may make sense to let --preserve and -p control
> whether the original context is copied over.
>
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