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Re: Bad cp -a behaviour
From: |
Philip Rowlands |
Subject: |
Re: Bad cp -a behaviour |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Aug 2004 02:22:48 +0100 (BST) |
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Paul Eggert wrote:
>The GNU documentation says that "-a" implies "--preserve=links" and
>that "--preserve-links" means "Preserve in the destination files any
>links between corresponding source files."
It also implies -R; should this patch cover that flag in isolation, or
only when accompanied by -d/--preserve=link?
If -R alone doesn't trigger the unlink, then we're still at the mercy of
the filesystem and the order it stores directory entries.
Cheers,
Phil
- Re: Bad cp -a behaviour, (continued)
- Re: Bad cp -a behaviour, Andreas Schwab, 2004/08/07
- Re: Bad cp -a behaviour, Philip Rowlands, 2004/08/07
- Re: Bad cp -a behaviour, Tim Waugh, 2004/08/10
- Re: Bad cp -a behaviour, Philip Rowlands, 2004/08/11
- Re: Bad cp -a behaviour, Tim Waugh, 2004/08/11
- Re: Bad cp -a behaviour, Philip Rowlands, 2004/08/11
- Re: Bad cp -a behaviour, Tim Waugh, 2004/08/11
- Re: Bad cp -a behaviour, Paul Eggert, 2004/08/11
- Re: Bad cp -a behaviour, Tim Waugh, 2004/08/12
- Re: Bad cp -a behaviour,
Philip Rowlands <=
- Re: Bad cp -a behaviour, Andreas Schwab, 2004/08/12