-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to William Tambe on 6/11/2008 10:34 AM: | | I know rsync provide a similar feature but it would be nice to have just | a single option to the cp command to do the work without having to use | another tool which has its own set of options and feature.
Unfortunately, adding a non-standard option to cp requires a lot of justification. As you noted, you can already use rsync; and whereas every vendor supplies a cp implementation (with POSIX describing a common subset), to my knowledge there is only one implementation of rsync. Ask yourself which is better - relying on a relatively stable and pre-existing interface provided by rsync, or waiting for several years for a non-standard GNU cp extension to propogate while still lacking that extension in all the vendor-supplied cp versions? We will probably review any patch written that adds such a feature, but none of the regulars on this list plan on writing such a patch because the benefit-to-cost ratio is so small. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkhQJBkACgkQ84KuGfSFAYAjrwCgu1LZIsFObI0FBFLAv9131x9n yyYAnj/Se8hWahBvPFtf1abnUghnuUDZ =Nqgd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
