[OpenIndiana-discuss] cp -p problem: extend system attributes

[Marcel Telka]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 09:32:00AM +0100, Carsten Grzemba wrote:
> On cp -p <file> i get often an error:
> 
> cp: Failed to copy extended system attributes from <file>
> cp: failed to set acl entries on <file>
> 
> if I look at the attributes, that files has the sparse attribut set:
> 
> grzemba at oi-kvm:~$ ls -/v db.h
> -rw-r--r-- 1 grzemba other 102130 Mär 5 09:02 db.h
>  {archive,nohidden,noreadonly,nosystem,noappendonly,nonodump,noimmutable,nonounlink,nooffline,sparse}
> 
> where I do not know why, maybe because the source files system is am NFS shared SAM-FS.
> 
> Can I modify this attributes?
> Is it a bug?
> Or how can I work around the problem?
> 
> grzemba at oi-kvm:~$ uname -a
> SunOS oi-kvm 5.11 oi_151a7 i86pc i386 i86pc

What cp are you using?
Try /usr/bin/cp and/or /usr/xpg4/bin/cp.

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