From owner-freebsd-audit Sat Dec 21 22:39: 9 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 9A50D37B405 for ; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 22:39:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF09E43EE6 for ; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 22:39:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id gBM6d2hg116698; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 01:39:02 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <86lm2jjsft.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> References: <86lm2jjsft.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 01:39:01 -0500 To: "Akinori MUSHA" , audit@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: cp -l Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) 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 12:35 AM +0900 12/22/02, Akinori MUSHA wrote: >Hi, > >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) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message