From owner-cvs-all Mon Feb 5 10:28: 3 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (earth-nat-cw.backplane.com [208.161.114.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B334C37B401; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:27:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id f15IR7R22831; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:27:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:27:07 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200102051827.f15IR7R22831@earth.backplane.com> To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Ruslan Ermilov , Stephen McKay , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/cp cp.1 References: <200102040202.f1422dJ34045@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010205123941.D65569@sunbay.com> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message