From owner-freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 15 13:06:55 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B83EF9CE for ; Wed, 15 Apr 2015 13:06:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kenobi.freebsd.org (kenobi.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::16:76]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9D5A5B89 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 2015 13:06:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bugs.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.118]) by kenobi.freebsd.org (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id t3FD6tIC072938 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 2015 13:06:55 GMT (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 199466] cp(1) should accept -P without -R as well per POSIX.1-2008 or like GNU cp Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 13:06:55 +0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: AssignedTo X-Bugzilla-Type: new X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: Base System X-Bugzilla-Component: standards X-Bugzilla-Version: 11.0-CURRENT X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: Affects Only Me X-Bugzilla-Who: jbeich@FreeBSD.org X-Bugzilla-Status: New X-Bugzilla-Priority: --- X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Flags: X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: bug_id short_desc product version rep_platform bug_file_loc op_sys bug_status bug_severity priority component assigned_to reporter Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bugzilla-URL: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Standards compliance List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 13:06:55 -0000 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199466 Bug ID: 199466 Summary: cp(1) should accept -P without -R as well per POSIX.1-2008 or like GNU cp Product: Base System Version: 11.0-CURRENT Hardware: Any URL: http://pubs.opengroup.org/stage7tc1/utilities/cp.html OS: Any Status: New Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: --- Component: standards Assignee: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.org Reporter: jbeich@FreeBSD.org 2013 edition clarifies the meaning of -P outside of -R context, mainly cp [-Pfip] source_file target_file cp [-Pfip] source_file... target If the -R option was not specified, cp shall take actions based on the type and contents of the file referenced by the symbolic link, and not by the symbolic link itself, unless the -P option was specified. Note, in GNU cp -P (--no-dereference) always worked outside of -R (--recursive). http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=c93a607 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.