DragonFlyBSD

On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 05:31:39PM +0200, Andreas Hauser wrote:

this patch adds the -a flag to cp(1) and documents the -r flag.
Also it cleans up the Synopsis (-pv -> -p -v).

The 'r' flag is documented. And exactly for the reasons given in the
man page, I don't want to see this commited.

No objection about the cleanup of the synopsis (with the exception of
-r).

Joerg

joerg wrote @ Fri, 26 May 2006 18:09:35 +0200:

On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 05:31:39PM +0200, Andreas Hauser wrote:

this patch adds the -a flag to cp(1) and documents the -r flag.
Also it cleans up the Synopsis (-pv -> -p -v).

The 'r' flag is documented. And exactly for the reasons given in the
man page, I don't want to see this commited.

This patch documents -r but tells you not to use it.
It makes -a be -Rp.
It also adds a to getopt ...

Finally, I don't see -a committed.

Additionally, I don't see any attachment here.
What is the sense of this issue yet opened?

-r seems to be documented already in cp(1) manpage

"Historic versions of the cp utility had a -r option. This implementation
supports that option, however, its use is strongly discouraged, as it
does not correctly copy special files, symbolic links or fifo's."

I don't see any opinion about -a option. I will close this ticket soon if no
feedback.

No patch, no nothing. I'm closing this.