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...of the other flags. > > To be clearer, the four OBool parameters would be: > > [OBool "all"; OBool "mode"; OBool "ownership"; OBool "xattributes"] So looking at your v2 patch a bit more, I think this is what you already did, except that "skipmode" is backwards from the other flags. I think we're in agreement, except I think "skipmode" should just become "mode" and not have negated meaning compared to the other flags. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libgue...

...> To be clearer, the four OBool parameters would be: > > [OBool "all"; OBool "mode"; OBool "ownership"; OBool > > "xattributes"] > > So looking at your v2 patch a bit more, I think this is what you > already did, except that "skipmode" is backwards from the other flags. > I think we're in agreement, except I think "skipmode" should just > become "mode" and not have negated meaning compared to the other > flags. OK, I will turn it back as it was before (into "mode"), but making use...

...default B<no> attribute is copied; you have to specify which > > attributes > > +to copy enabling the optional arguments: > Thoughts: > > - Should it default to copying attributes? You've convinced me, so I've turned the "permissions" flag into "skipmode", so specifying nothing now copies the file mode (so permissions + bits). > The common use case (for virt-edit) is: "I want this other file which > is identical to this original file, except in name and content". That > is (I think) an argument for copying everything by d...

...e very odd corner cases), just leave your implementation for now, but don't specify it in the documentation so we could change it later. > > - Should it default to copying attributes? > > You've convinced me, so I've turned the "permissions" flag into > "skipmode", so specifying nothing now copies the file mode (so > permissions + bits). > > > The common use case (for virt-edit) is: "I want this other file which > > is identical to this original file, except in name and content". That > > is (I think) an argument fo...

Hi, attached there is a prototype of patch for adding a new copy-attributes command. Such command would allow copy the attributes of a "file" to another, so for example in guestfish: copy-attributes foo bar permissions:true xattributes:false would only copy the permissions of foo to bar, not copying its extended attributes too. Just few notes: - my first daemon command, so