directory in a different order).
Try to preserve SELinux security context and extended attributes (xattr),
but ignore any failure to do that and print no corresponding diagnostic.
-Equivalent to @option{-dR --preserve=all} with the reduced diagnostics.
+Equivalent to @option{-dR --preserve=all}.
@item -b
@itemx @w{@kbd{--backup}[=@var{method}]}
Preserve all file attributes.
Equivalent to specifying all of the above, but with the difference
that failure to preserve SELinux security context or extended attributes
-does not change @command{cp}'s exit status.
-@command{cp} does diagnose such failures.
+does not change @command{cp}'s exit status, or produce error messages.
@end table
Using @option{--preserve} with no @var{attribute_list} is equivalent