Re: [PATCH]cp --recursive fails unnecessarily when the names of the latter approach become very long

2007-12-06 Thread Cai Xianchao
Jim Meyering 写道: Cai Xianchao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for your advice. We do not need the forms now. We will pursue this work and write a copyright assignment on file after we have improved the patch. Be aware that it can take several weeks for an assignment to be processed.

Symbolic link problem

2007-12-06 Thread NEWPORT Dennis
This seems peculiar behaviour to me: mkdir targ ln -s targ src ll -rt drwxr-xr-x 2 cwbspr2 wbspr2 4096 Dec 6 15:49 targ lrwxrwxrwx 1 cwbspr2 wbspr2 4 Dec 6 15:49 src -> targ That's as expected but then if you try and create the symlink again you get the following: ln -s targ src ll t

Re: Symbolic link problem

2007-12-06 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to NEWPORT Dennis on 12/6/2007 7:54 AM: > mkdir targ > ln -s targ src > ll -rt > ln -s targ src > > ll targ/ > total 0 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 cwbspr2 wbspr2 4 Dec 6 15:50 targ -> targ > > i.e. inside the targ directory you get a targ symlink to t