The following reply was made to PR bin/144531; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Alexander Best <arun...@freebsd.org> To: bug-follo...@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Re: bin/144531: [patch] cp(1) show percentage complete Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:22:14 +0000
hi there, i don't think the original patch you submitted will be accepted by any developer since it breaks the behaviour of `cp -v`. you might want to add a new switch to trigger the extra output from your patch. just be sure you don't use any switch that's already taken by POSIX [1]. however personally i don't think that your patch will be committed even with a new switch. `cp` has been the way it is for a very long time and i don't think people want it to change. you might want to open a new thread on freebsd-hackers@ or freebsd-current@ and ask what the developers think about your patch. this might trigger some interest in this PR. the fact however is that there are a lot of PRs with great and useful additions to FreeBSD. however most people that are using FreeBSD on a daily basis don't want basic applications like `cp` to change. even if a developer would commit your patch it is most likely that he'll be forced to revert the changes due to the fact that other developers don't see the need for such a change. i would expect the argument to be something like this: "the behavior of cp hasn't change since 1977. cp didn't need this feature back then and it doesn't need it now." personally i don't agree with this point of view. good luck and i hope your patch will somehow make it into the tree. i've applied your patch to my local src tree and try to use the -v when copying large files. i really like it. :) cheers. alex [1] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/ -- a13x _______________________________________________ freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-bugs-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
