Bug 802006

Summary:	cp -avZ behaves incorrectly on a system without SELinux
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Adam Pribyl <covex>
Component:	coreutils	Assignee:	Ondrej Vasik <ovasik>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	16	CC:	kdudka, maxamillion, ovasik, p, twaugh
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Description Adam Pribyl 2012-03-10 07:12:59 UTC

Description of problem:
cp -avZ does not copy a first directory in a bash expanded list, while cp -av works OK on a system where SELinux is not enabled.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
8.12-6.fc16.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. mkdir -p cptest/bin cptest/nonbin cptarget
2. cp -avZ cptest/* cptarget/
  
Actual results:
Warning:  ignoring --context (-Z). It requires a SELinux enabled kernel.
`cptest/nonbin' -> `cptarget/nonbin'

Only nonbin subdir si copied. The bin subdir is skipped.

Expected results:
cp -av copies both dirs.

This is true for both i686 and x86_64.

Comment 1 Ondrej Vasik 2012-03-10 07:51:17 UTC

Thanks for report, but sorry - this not a bug. This is expected behaviour and misusing -Z option. Non-upstream, now deprecated -Z option requires an argument - to which the context of the destination files is set - therefore the first argument is "eaten" and skipped.