From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 9 7:14:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailout02.sul.t-online.de (mailout02.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B21C437B401 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 07:14:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fwd05.sul.t-online.de by mailout02.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 15qxeS-0008Ms-0G; Tue, 09 Oct 2001 16:14:32 +0200 Received: from pc5.abc (520067998749-0001@[62.155.142.10]) by fmrl05.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 15qxe8-0bywqGC; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 16:14:12 +0200 Received: (from nicolas@localhost) by pc5.abc (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f99EC4x22249 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 16:12:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from list@rachinsky.de) X-Authentication-Warning: pc5.abc: nicolas set sender to list@rachinsky.de using -f Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 16:12:04 +0200 From: Nicolas Rachinsky To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: cp -i -R Message-ID: <20011009161204.A22196@pc5.abc> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-Sender: 520067998749-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm wondering if /bin/cp is working as documented. cp -i -R src target is overwriting a regular file named target/src WITHOUT any warning, if src is a symlink. I think, this behaviour does not match the documentation. Either cp or the docu should be changed. Nicolas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message