Re: [coreutils] [patch] Re: Install enhancement request: capabilities

[Pádraig Brady]

Thanks for the patch!
I think the feature is worth it.

Currently install does not preserve xattrs
and so looses any previous capabilities
associated with a file.

In any case, capabilities don't need to be implemented
using xattrs, and might not be on tmpfs on Linux
for example when support is eventually added there.

One tricky thing I noticed with capabilities,
is that one needs to do after setting any ownership,
which you do correctly in the patch.

cheers,
Pádraig.