On Wed 18 Jul 2018 at 13:02:03 +, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> Let's survey the other implementations (linux, etc.) and see what they
> do, and decide. We should document this clearly as well as stating what
> other implementations do, and why we decided to do what we decided so others
> don't have
In article ,
D'Arcy Cain wrote:
>On 2018-07-18 02:11 AM, Robert Elz wrote:
>> You do understand though that you have changed the semantics? The
>> old way, cp -l would only link the files that could have been copied, now
>> it will happily link unreadable files. Also cp -il will no longer work
On 2018-07-18 02:11 AM, Robert Elz wrote:
> You do understand though that you have changed the semantics? The
> old way, cp -l would only link the files that could have been copied, now
> it will happily link unreadable files. Also cp -il will no longer work, and
> probably more.
I missed that.
Date:Wed, 18 Jul 2018 07:04:24 -0400
From:chris...@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
Message-ID: <20180718110424.78f0f17f...@rebar.astron.com>
| Well, in that case we should check what POSIX says about it
There is no -l in posix cp
| and what do other implementation
On Jul 18, 1:11pm, k...@munnari.oz.au (Robert Elz) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Short circuit cp -l
| Date:Tue, 17 Jul 2018 09:06:53 -0400
| From:"D'Arcy Cain"
| Message-ID: <409f3df1-c91c-897c-e4ea-98413263f...@netbsd.org>
|
| | Do you think tha
Date:Tue, 17 Jul 2018 09:06:53 -0400
From:"D'Arcy Cain"
Message-ID: <409f3df1-c91c-897c-e4ea-98413263f...@netbsd.org>
| Do you think that this is a candidate for a pullup to 8?
You've already been informed that it is too late for 8.0 (and I don't think
that is the
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 09:06:53AM -0400, D'Arcy Cain wrote:
> On 2018-07-17 08:41 AM, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> > Well, the comment needs to be amended, since you don't need to close the
> > fd's anymore. Other than that it looks fine.
>
> Great! I went ahead.
>
> Do you think that this is a can
In article <409f3df1-c91c-897c-e4ea-98413263f...@netbsd.org>,
D'Arcy Cain wrote:
>On 2018-07-17 08:41 AM, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>> Well, the comment needs to be amended, since you don't need to close the
>> fd's anymore. Other than that it looks fine.
>
>Great! I went ahead.
>
>Do you think tha
On 2018-07-17 08:41 AM, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> Well, the comment needs to be amended, since you don't need to close the
> fd's anymore. Other than that it looks fine.
Great! I went ahead.
Do you think that this is a candidate for a pullup to 8?
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In article <69e203a6-fa65-bc01-f00d-da4b3ea9e...@vybenetworks.com>,
D'Arcy Cain wrote:
>Years ago I added the -l option to cp. I was looking at it recently and
>I saw that it was opening and closing the file even though it never did
>anything except link it.
>
>I want to make the following chang
Years ago I added the -l option to cp. I was looking at it recently and
I saw that it was opening and closing the file even though it never did
anything except link it.
I want to make the following change. Basically it moves the link code
to the start of the function bypassing all that extra wor
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