From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 12 14:59:59 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FE9F16A4CE for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 14:59:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mta13-winn.mailhost.ntl.com (smtpout19.mailhost.ntl.com [212.250.162.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A1CA43D5A for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 14:59:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tom.hurst@clara.net) Received: from aamta07-winn.mailhost.ntl.com ([212.250.162.8]) by mta13-winn.mailhost.ntl.com with ESMTP <20050412145957.ZBKG2577.mta13-winn.mailhost.ntl.com@aamta07-winn.mailhost.ntl.com>; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 15:59:57 +0100 Received: from voi.aagh.net ([81.104.55.176]) by aamta07-winn.mailhost.ntl.com with ESMTP <20050412145957.EDPW10174.aamta07-winn.mailhost.ntl.com@voi.aagh.net>; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 15:59:57 +0100 Received: from freaky by voi.aagh.net with local (Exim 4.44 (FreeBSD)) id 1DLMrr-000Pop-AD; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 15:59:55 +0100 Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 15:59:55 +0100 From: Thomas Hurst To: Stephen McKay Message-ID: <20050412145955.GA97179@voi.aagh.net> Mail-Followup-To: Stephen McKay , Garrett Wollman , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org References: <20050327223238.GA749@polands.org> <010401c53385$584a04c0$6800000a@venti> <20050329041527.GA9586@VARK.MIT.EDU> <20050329062550.GA69824@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <200503301139.j2UBdMp5016442@dungeon.home> <200503301449.j2UEn1v5061914@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <200503310148.j2V1mvL3006507@dungeon.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200503310148.j2V1mvL3006507@dungeon.home> Organization: Not much. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: Thomas Hurst cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org cc: Garrett Wollman Subject: Re: Heads up: gtar gone from base system X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 14:59:59 -0000 * Stephen McKay (smckay@internode.on.net) wrote: > It's obvious that "cp" has split hard links for all its life because > the original programmer was lazy. That this laziness has been > codified in POSIX is not something to be cheered, although at this > late stage it may be too hard to fix. A little bird tells me GNU cp has a -d option which makes it handle hardlinks properly, and an -a option so you can just do cp -a src dest. Maybe worth adopting? -- Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst http://hur.st/