From 6326f9f26c07995979f554307fda3248502ba8ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: gutteridge <gutteridge@NetBSD.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2018 01:29:23 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify a sentence about the error handling of cp(1)'s -p
 option. Addresses PR bin/40336.

---
 bin/cp/cp.1 | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bin/cp/cp.1 b/bin/cp/cp.1
index a2f0ebe4ac37..d038da4560de 100644
--- a/bin/cp/cp.1
+++ b/bin/cp/cp.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: cp.1,v 1.45 2016/08/11 00:17:23 sevan Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: cp.1,v 1.46 2018/12/23 01:29:23 gutteridge Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"	@(#)cp.1	8.3 (Berkeley) 4/18/94
 .\"
-.Dd August 11, 2016
+.Dd December 22, 2018
 .Dt CP 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -120,8 +120,9 @@ to preserve in the copy as many of the modification time, access time,
 file flags, file mode, user ID, group ID, and extended attributes,
 as allowed by permissions.
 .Pp
-If the user ID and group ID cannot be preserved, no error message
-is displayed and the exit value is not altered.
+If the user ID and group ID cannot be preserved due to insufficient
+permissions, no error message is displayed and the exit value is not
+altered.
 .Pp
 If the source file has its set user ID bit on and the user ID cannot
 be preserved, the set user ID bit is not preserved