Why does --xattrs imply --perms (according to the man page)? Unlike --acls, --xattrs is not logically a superset of --perms (since system.* xattrs are ignored). I might conceivably want to copy some user xattrs that I set on my files while allowing the destination permissions to take the default value. Matt
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 05:59:35PM -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote:> Why does --xattrs imply --perms (according to the man page)?Yeah, there isn't really a good reason for that. It was probably just a left-over from back when the patch was created (back when the original author based the xattr patch on the ACL patch). I've gotten rid of that implication. ..wayne..
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