On 20/11/2009, at 12:09 PM, Philip Guenther wrote:
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Paul M <l...@no-tek.com> wrote:
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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?
To quote the RATIONALE section of the POSIX spec for 'cp':
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I assumed it was something of the sort, but as they say - Assumption is
the mother of all fuckups.
Thanks for clearing that up.
paulm
