"Bo Borgerson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hi Bo, >> >> Thanks for that patch. >> >> However, let's see if Cai Xianchao and Li Zefan >> are still working on rewriting cp to use openat-style functions. >> >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/12041 >> >> Because once cp is rewritten the way I outlined later in >> that thread, there will be no need for your patch. > > Hi, > > I may be missing something, but from a scan of that thread it seems to > me that the two patches are actually mutually beneficial.
The change I want is to make cp use fts, and fts already does efficient cycle detection. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils