From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 9 7:54:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sage-american.com (sage-american.com [216.122.141.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C23D237B40B for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 07:54:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sageone (ppp-208-191-234-55.dialup.crchtx.swbell.net [208.191.234.55]) by sage-american.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA03664; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 09:54:48 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20011009095525.031a30f0@mail.sage-american.com> X-Sender: jacks@mail.sage-american.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 09:55:25 -0500 To: Nicolas Rachinsky , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: jacks@sage-american.com Subject: Re: cp -i -R In-Reply-To: <20011009161204.A22196@pc5.abc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 Nicolas: I believe "target" is meant to be replaced with the REAL name you want to use... if I understood this right.... At 04:12 PM 10.9.2001 +0200, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote: >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 > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message