Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Peter Breitenlohner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I cannot believe that the new behaviour is intentional, and IMHO it doesn't >> make much sense. > > Looking at the patch that changed the behavior: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-08/msg00285.html > > it appears you're right.
This patch did not change the behaviour, it was already present before that (though implemented in a more roundabout way). The real change has sneaked in with revision 1.197 of copy.c. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
