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Date:      Sun, 2 Apr 1995 00:26:05 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: MBONE interfaces and snazzy install tools.
Message-ID:  <199504012226.AAA01913@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199504012133.HAA20753@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Apr 2, 95 07:33:14 am

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As Bruce Evans wrote:
> 
> ...  pax's copy mode
> works but so does ordinary `cp -pR' (except `cp -pR' breaks links...).

...and waits forever if some bozo placed a FIFO right in the source
tree. :-)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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