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[Michael Yep]

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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