Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 21:22:28 -0600 From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: wpaul@freefall.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libss Makefile Message-ID: <199503150323.VAA16282@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Mar 95 18:17:37 PST." <199503150217.SAA09430@forgery.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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> * From: Bill Paul <wpaul@freefall.cdrom.com> > > * Repeat after me kids: "I will not try to install files into a directory > * when I'm not sure whether or not that directory exists." > > I've been bitten by this several times. Maybe we can make a new flag > to cp/install that says "the destination should be a directory...if > not, report an error". Append "/." to the directory name.
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