From e945dee50284f439d14ea60d1d5b14f72e834105 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dtucker <dtucker@openbsd.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2021 07:11:11 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify which file's attributes -p preserves, and that it's
 specifically the file mode bits. bz#3340 from calestyo at scientia.net, ok
 djm@ jmc@

---
 usr.bin/ssh/scp.1 | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/usr.bin/ssh/scp.1 b/usr.bin/ssh/scp.1
index 90b1d1dca2d..8234ddf90a1 100644
--- a/usr.bin/ssh/scp.1
+++ b/usr.bin/ssh/scp.1
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@
 .\"
 .\" Created: Sun May  7 00:14:37 1995 ylo
 .\"
-.\" $OpenBSD: scp.1,v 1.102 2021/09/09 06:17:39 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: scp.1,v 1.103 2021/09/10 07:11:11 dtucker Exp $
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: September 9 2021 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: September 10 2021 $
 .Dt SCP 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -229,10 +229,10 @@ Note that this option is written with a capital
 .Sq P ,
 because
 .Fl p
-is already reserved for preserving the times and modes of the file.
+is already reserved for preserving the times and mode bits of the file.
 .It Fl p
-Preserves modification times, access times, and modes from the
-original file.
+Preserves modification times, access times, and file mode bits from the
+source file.
 .It Fl q
 Quiet mode: disables the progress meter as well as warning and diagnostic
 messages from
-- 
2.20.1