From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 1 14:35:28 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA02955 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 14:35:28 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA02943 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 14:35:20 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA04276; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 00:35:04 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id AAA04241 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 00:35:03 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id AAA01913 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 00:26:05 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199504012226.AAA01913@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: MBONE interfaces and snazzy install tools. To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 00:26:05 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: <199504012133.HAA20753@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Apr 2, 95 07:33:14 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 344 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Bruce Evans wrote: > > ... pax's copy mode > works but so does ordinary `cp -pR' (except `cp -pR' breaks links...). ...and waits forever if some bozo placed a FIFO right in the source tree. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)