From owner-freebsd-standards Mon Jul 8 15:24:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2516437B400; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 15:24:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from espresso.q9media.com (espresso.q9media.com [65.39.129.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD13B43E3B; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 15:24:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@espresso.q9media.com) Received: by espresso.q9media.com (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 5BDC19C0B; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 18:20:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 18:20:59 -0400 From: Mike Barcroft To: Johan Karlsson Cc: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org, sheldonh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adding -n flag to cp(1)/mv(1) Message-ID: <20020708182059.A51389@espresso.q9media.com> References: <20020708191912.C56044@numeri.campus.luth.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020708191912.C56044@numeri.campus.luth.se>; from johan@freebsd.org on Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 07:19:12PM +0200 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Johan Karlsson writes: > I'm thinking about adding a flag to cp(1)/mv(1) > to make it never overwrite an existing file. > (see PR 7828 for the original suggestion) > > I guess a natural flag to use is -n as in the PR > but I want to know if this violates any of the > standards that we are trying to conform to. > > Or is this a realy stupid idea for some > other (standards) reason? I don't see a problem with this from a standards perspective. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message