Brendan Byrd/SineSwiper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think my main point is that this is not a serious limitation, or at > least one that was never brought up until now. It's apparently been in > the copy.c code for eons. There must be some reason for this limitation > to be put in place
Oh, certainly: for symlinks, relative target paths are interpreted relative to the symlink's directory, not the directory where you ran the program from. So to support all cases, the program would have to convert the target path given on the command line to one that meant the same thing when interpreted relative to the symlink's directory. There isn't always a unique way of doing this, due to other symlinks to directories, etc. paul _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
