Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:36:07 -0400 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: Bogdan TARU <bgd@icomag.de>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 'rm' incompatibility with Posix.2 Message-ID: <20020410153607.BE884BB39@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20020410171808.K82564-100000@fw.cgn.icom> References: <20020410171808.K82564-100000@fw.cgn.icom>
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On Wednesday 10 April 2002 11:21 am, Bogdan TARU wrote:
| As well:
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| bgd@web$ mkdir temp
| bgd@web$ touch temp/a
| bgd@web$ mkdir temp2
| bgd@web$ cp -R temp/ temp2/
| bgd@web$ ls -al temp2/
| total 3
| drwxr-xr-x 2 bgd wheel 512 Apr 10 17:20 .
| drwxr-xr-x 14 bgd wheel 2048 Apr 10 17:20 ..
| -rw-r--r-- 1 bgd wheel 0 Apr 10 17:20 a
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| If ending a symlink with a slash is supposed to mean 'refer to the
| directory it points to', I imagine ending a directory with a slash is even
| more so. Then why, oh, why, 'cp -R' copies only the content of the
| directory in the new location????
|
| man cp:
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| -R If source_file designates a directory, cp copies the directory and
| the entire subtree connected at that point.
|
| Why do I have the feeling something goes terribly wrong here?
That *would* seem to fly in the face of the previously-cited posix2
requirement.
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| bogdan
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