From owner-freebsd-audit Sun Dec 22 1:54:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B84A37B401 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 01:54:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.musha.org (daemon.musha.org [210.189.104.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CB7143EDC for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 01:54:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from knu@iDaemons.org) Received: from daemon.musha.org (daemon.local.idaemons.org [192.168.1.1]) by mail.musha.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C91EB519B2; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 18:54:02 +0900 (JST) Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 18:54:02 +0900 Message-ID: <86n0mycrb9.wl@daemon.musha.org> From: "Akinori MUSHA" To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: audit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cp -l In-Reply-To: References: <86lm2jjsft.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.11.0 (Wonderwall) EMIKO/1.14.1 (Choanoflagellata) LIMIT/1.14.7 (Fujiidera) APEL/10.4 Emacs/21.2 (i386--freebsd) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) Organization: Associated I. Daemons X-PGP-Public-Key: finger knu@FreeBSD.org X-PGP-Fingerprint: 081D 099C 1705 861D 4B70 B04A 920B EFC7 9FD9 E1EE MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by EMIKO 1.14.1 - "Choanoflagellata") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At Sun, 22 Dec 2002 01:39:01 -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >What about cp -l a la GNU cp? > > Why would we want this, when we already have the 'ln' command? > (I'm not saying we should not do this, I am just wondering what > the advantage is) Cp(1) has -R, and can do operations recursively. Maybe we can add the fts(3) facilities to ln(1) instead, though. -- / /__ __ Akinori.org / MUSHA.org / ) ) ) ) / FreeBSD.org / Ruby-lang.org Akinori MUSHA aka / (_ / ( (__( @ iDaemons.org / and.or.jp "I believe in what I see, I believe in what I hear, I believe that what I'm feeling changes how the world appears." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message