From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 25 19:04:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1A7116A4E0; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:04:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F5C543D46; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:04:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [192.168.42.24] (andersonbox4.centtech.com [192.168.42.24]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k7PJ3xhY061344; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:04:00 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <44EF499F.6050904@centtech.com> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:03:59 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060802) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garance A Drosehn References: <44C82A40.3020009@centtech.com> <44EDF0CD.2070804@centtech.com> <44EE0FEB.4010406@elischer.org> <200608250905.55925.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1729/Fri Aug 25 12:57:01 2006 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Julian Elischer Subject: Re: [PATCH] adding two new options to 'cp' X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:04:07 -0000 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------