On 20/11/2009, at 11:17 AM, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
Rodolfo Gouveia wrote on Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 05:06:10PM -0500:
It seems the 'r' flag isn't mentioned on the man page.
schwa...@gini $ man cp | tail -n 9
Historic versions of the cp utility had a -r option. This
implementation
supports that option; however, its use is strongly discouraged,
as it
does not correctly copy special files, symbolic links or FIFOs.
This always confused me - Presumably there is some reason why the
implimentation
of the -r flag could not be fixed to copy symlinks, FIFOs, etc
correctly.
Anybody have any insight here? Why would a new flag be needed?
paulm
