Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:03:59 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Garance A Drosehn <gad@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] adding two new options to 'cp' Message-ID: <44EF499F.6050904@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <p0623090fc114d7d93eea@[128.113.24.47]> References: <44C82A40.3020009@centtech.com> <44EDF0CD.2070804@centtech.com> <44EE0FEB.4010406@elischer.org> <200608250905.55925.jhb@freebsd.org> <p0623090fc114d7d93eea@[128.113.24.47]>
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On 08/25/06 11:49, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > At 9:05 AM -0400 8/25/06, John Baldwin wrote: >> On 24 August 2006, Julian Elischer wrote in a cvs-commit log: >> > >> > Add an option to allow copying of a hierarchy while >> > linking he regular files. > > Very good for commiting this -- except that I'm not quite > sure that log-message is parseable! From looking at the > man-page update, this option only handles hard-links? What > happens with symlinks? No change in functionality - copies them like it normally would (depending on what other options you may have used). It doesn't try to hard link them if that is what you are asking. >> > Bikeshedded to death on: hackers >>> Submitted by:andersonatcenttech.com >>> MFC in: 1 month >> It was on my todo list as well. I think I'll still add >> the -a option. > > I think that is a good idea, too. > Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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