Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:34:23 GMT From: Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/135516: pax manual not mentioning chflags unawareness Message-ID: <200906121734.n5CHYNil023434@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200906121740.n5CHe1ug029971@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 135516 >Category: docs >Synopsis: pax manual not mentioning chflags unawareness >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Jun 12 17:40:01 UTC 2009 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Alexander Best >Release: 8.0-CURRENT >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD moshnroll 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #54 r193846M: Fri Jun 12 00:39:20 CEST 2009 root@moshnroll:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ARUNDEL i386 >Description: the pax manual page doesn't mention that pax is unaware of chflags. in fact it describes the switch `-p e` as `Preserve everything'. the manual page should explicitly mention paxes unawareness of chflags and the description 'Preserve everything' shouldn't be used since pax only preserves user ID, group ID, file mode bits, file access time, and file modification time. cheers. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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