Re: copy and links

2010-01-21 Thread Mark Burgess
ok, cool nwat...@symcor.com wrote: > Sorry Mark, my mistake. My recurse depth was not deep enough to catch the > missing link. > > Sincerely, > -- > Neil Watson > 416-673-3465 > > > > > > > CONFIDENTIALITY WARNING >

Re: copy and links

2010-01-21 Thread NWatson
Sorry Mark, my mistake. My recurse depth was not deep enough to catch the missing link. Sincerely, -- Neil Watson 416-673-3465 CONFIDENTIALITY WARNING This communication, including any attachments, is for the exclusive use of addressee and may contain proprietary and/or confidential informat

Re: copy and links

2010-01-21 Thread NWatson
Currently I have removed just a link and it is not be recreated by the copy. Is it possible that links are being followed instead? Sincerely, -- Neil Watson 416-673-3465 Mark Burgess wrote on 2010-01-21 11:09:30: > > I would expect these to be preserved, but the outcome might be order > dep

Re: copy and links

2010-01-21 Thread Mark Burgess
I would expect these to be preserved, but the outcome might be order dependent. If the link is copied before the file exists then it might fail on the first run unless you allow lnks to nonexistent files. nwat...@symcor.com wrote: > My promise is to copy a lib directory. Inside are links point

Re: copy and links

2010-01-21 Thread NWatson
My promise is to copy a lib directory. Inside are links pointing to files in the same directory. Should the copy preserve these links? Initial testing indicates that the links are ignored. No options for copy_from seem related to me. Sincerely, -- Neil Watson 416-673-3465 CONFIDENTIALITY

Re: copy and links

2010-01-21 Thread Mark Burgess
Depends on the promise settings. There are too many choices to make 1. what happens if the link does not point to anything on the other side? 2. what if the link is to a directory. Do we treat it as a link or a directory? etc Difficult to summarize all this. Look through the options and remembe