Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:49:01 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Stephen McKay <smckay@internode.on.net> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up: gtar gone from base system Message-ID: <200503301449.j2UEn1v5061914@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <200503301139.j2UBdMp5016442@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>
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<<On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 21:39:22 +1000, Stephen McKay <smckay@internode.on.net> said: > Tar is indeed a most excellent program for copying directory trees, since > even in this modern century cp fails to correctly handle hard links. Sigh. I believe the record will show that `cp' handles hard links correctly according to the specification; that's simply not the behavior you want. (In POSIX one would use `pax -rw' for that.) -GAWollman
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