Heads up: gtar gone from base system

[Thomas Hurst]

* Stephen McKay (smckay at internode.on.net) wrote:

> It's obvious that "cp" has split hard links for all its life because
> the original programmer was lazy.  That this laziness has been
> codified in POSIX is not something to be cheered, although at this
> late stage it may be too hard to fix.

A little bird tells me GNU cp has a -d option which makes it handle
hardlinks properly, and an -a option so you can just do cp -a src dest.
Maybe worth adopting?

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