On Monday 31 July 2006 14:53, Mike Meyer wrote: > Which points up an obvious question: other than compatibility with > Linux, is there any reason this functionaly shouldn't be added to the > ln command instead?
Umm, because ln doesn't copy hierarchies? Using that argument we'd remove support for hard-links from tar and cpio. I think cp -a is harmless (just as I use rsync -a all the time rather than rsync -rlptgoD) and cp -l is probably useful. Really, it is more intuitive to be able to copy a hierarchy using the 'copy' command (cp) directly rather than a convoluted pair of find | cpio. In this case I think you might be overly paranoid. :) -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
