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Subject: bug#32127: RFE -- in the way "cp -rl" -- enable 'ln' to do
likewise?
Resent-Date:Thu, 12 Jul 2018 07:17:02 +
Resent-From:L A Walsh
Resent-CC: bug-coreutils@gnu.org
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 00:16:50 -0700
From: L A Walsh
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On 07/12/2018 02:16 AM, L A Walsh wrote:
>
> I'm asking why does 'ln' bother to tell the user that they are
> wrong and do nothing useful? Why not just go ahead and create a symlink
The user didn't ask for a symlink, and it sounds unwise for ln to be
second-guessing that. Sometimes, reporting
Paul Eggert wrote:
On 07/12/2018 02:16 AM, L A Walsh wrote:
I'm asking why does 'ln' bother to tell the user that they are
wrong and do nothing useful? Why not just go ahead and create a symlink
The user didn't ask for a symlink, and it sounds unwise for ln to be
second-guessing that.
Hey Berny,
I like your suggestion of testing whether hashing
interferes with any other option.
I was glad to see the POSIX standard doesn't
explicitly require sorted input or output.
If someone writes the patch, I should be able to
test it, at least on up to 1 GB of input.
So,
Kingsley
On 07/1
