On 10/19/07, Tom Van Looy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Richard Toohey wrote: > > On 19/10/2007, at 8:12 PM, Raimo Niskanen wrote: > > > > Looks like OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X BSD bits have the same > > sort of outcome. > > > > > > Copy foo to foo only once and quit, I think that's the correct > > behaviour. I even think that posix more or less describes that. > > > > > > That's what it should be doing I guess. But it's tricky, if you start > > doing symlinks etc, you'll end up looping sooner or later. What if the > > directoy's are not named the same (eg: hard links)? > > > correction: hard links are not allowed on directory's, ... > that being said, comparing inodes seems the best solution > > only, don't give an error but copy once > maybe if I have time this weekend I'll try code that behaviour > > Anyway, it has worked like that since years, and I guess nobody has had > a problem with it before. I don't think it should be changed just > because some bored guy playing with it noticed strange output ;-p
Sure, but "bored guy" can translate to "new ideas" and testing somehow-still-untested code paths. It's worth a shot at fixing. -Nick
