Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 20:33:26 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cp Message-ID: <19991107203325.B316@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <19991105203615.B12970@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <19991105203615.B12970@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
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On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 08:36:15PM +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
> A question,
>
> following a discussion on the automake discussion list I tried to use cp
> -r and found that it was actually usable.
>
> >From what I am able to glance from the source file cp.c it looks as if
> -r and -R do the same.
>
> If so, we porbably want to add this flag to the man page, but first I
> wonder if -R and -r _are_ in fact the same.
>
No they aren't, and I speak from experience. If FIFOs are involved
then ``-r'' tries to copy the contents of the FIFO whereas ``-R''
copies the FIFO itself:
cp.c line 402
e S_IFIFO:
if (Rflag) {
if (copy_fifo(curr->fts_statp, !dne))
rval = 1;
} else {
if (copy_file(curr, dne))
rval = 1;
> Comments?
>
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