-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Becker, Paul on 12/27/2006 12:23 PM: > Currently, "cp -ui" always prompts the user, even if nothing > > is going to be attempted to be copied. I would expect to only be > > prompted if the file is going to be copied. I don't think the user > > should be prompted for every single file even if it is not going > > to be copied anyway.
Indeed, without the -u, this behavior of cp -i is required by POSIX. But since -u is a GNU extension, you are correct that it may be worth changing the behavior in this area to suppress the -i prompt if -u determines the dates imply no copy is needed. Now all that is needed is for someone with enough time to write a patch. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFk0XB84KuGfSFAYARAtyyAJsHPFUiZho7HeC23peMpWpICzdIHQCgpKRe QT1GfOX/Cs6iq/zEdIQs2EM= =bnr3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
