Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 15:59:55 +0100 From: Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net> To: Stephen McKay <smckay@internode.on.net> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Subject: Re: Heads up: gtar gone from base system Message-ID: <20050412145955.GA97179@voi.aagh.net> In-Reply-To: <200503310148.j2V1mvL3006507@dungeon.home> 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>
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* 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/
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