[PATCH] adding two new options to 'cp'

[Eric Anderson]

On 08/25/06 11:49, Garance A Drosehn wrote:
> At 9:05 AM -0400 8/25/06, John Baldwin wrote:
>> On 24 August 2006, Julian Elischer wrote in a cvs-commit log:
>>  >
>>  > Add an option to allow copying of a hierarchy while
>>  > linking he regular files.
> 
> Very good for commiting this --  except that I'm not quite
> sure that log-message is parseable!  From looking at the
> man-page update, this option only handles hard-links?  What
> happens with symlinks?

No change in functionality - copies them like it normally would 
(depending on what other options you may have used).  It doesn't try to 
hard link them if that is what you are asking.

>>  > Bikeshedded to death on: hackers
>>>  Submitted by:andersonatcenttech.com
>>>  MFC in: 1 month
>> It was on my todo list as well.  I think I'll still add
>> the -a option.
> 
> I think that is a good idea, too.
> 


Eric


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