Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:27:07 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, Stephen McKay <mckay@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/cp cp.1 Message-ID: <200102051827.f15IR7R22831@earth.backplane.com> References: <200102040202.f1422dJ34045@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010205123941.D65569@sunbay.com> <p05010400b6a498779e0a@[128.113.24.47]>
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:At 12:39 PM +0200 2/5/01, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
:>On Sat, Feb 03, 2001, Stephen McKay wrote:
:> > Log:
:>> In the hope of saving others from hours of tedious recovery work,
:>> document that cp still isn't very useful for recursive copies even
:>> with the -R flag. This is because hard links are broken by cp.
:>>
:>Shouldn't this be moved into the BUGS section of the manpage?
:
:I wouldn't think so, but then I have a hard time coming up with a
:reason that anyone WOULD expect 'cp' to recreate hard links. If
:...
Use 'cpdup' from /usr/ports/sysutils/cpdup to duplicate directory
hierarchies. When I originally wrote it it couldn't handle hard
links, but Dima Ruban added them in so now it does!
-Matt
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