On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 11:36 -0400, Jay Fenlason wrote: > I've written a patch to rsync that adds support for transferring posix > extended attributes. I've put the srpm and an i386 binary rpm at > http://people.redhat.com/fenlason/rsync/rsync-2.6.3-2.{src,i386}.rpm > These rpms also contain the acl patch. This works for me too. Nice! One note though - we will want to extend the patch at some point to make it use setfscreatecon for security.selinux attributes to avoid a race condition where permissions could be wider than necessary. > To enable the transfer of extended attributes you need to use the new > -X option. I wonder - is there a reason not to make -a imply -XA?
