On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Mike Meyer wrote:
snake% uname -a
FreeBSD snake.mired.org 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May 7 04:42:56
UTC 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386
snake% ls -l /bin/cp
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 15300 May 6 23:56 /bin/cp
flea# ls -l cp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 15300 Jul 31 12:52 cp
flea# ./cp -a cp.o cp.o.2
flea# ./cp
usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-apv] source_file target_file
cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-apv] source_file ...
target_directory
flea# ls -l /bin/cp
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 15300 Apr 24 13:55 /bin/cp
flea#
Looks to me with optimizations, the addition of the option seems to add
nothing for the -a case at least.
Jason
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