<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been running coreutils-6.7 on Darwin/MacOSX 10.4.8 ever > since it went final. The "make check" tests that failed > probably can be explained. Haven't seen any real problems, but > all I usually do is lots of builds of other open projects and > trying to keep up with the updates. ;) > > But I wonder about this blurb from "man MvMac": > > [...] > As of Mac OS X 10.4, the mv command preserves metadata and resource forks > of files on Extended HFS volumes, so it can be used in place of MvMac. > The MvMac command will be deprecated in future versions of Mac OS X. > [...] > > Are these changes inside the coreutils code already
Not unless they're somehow based on standard ACLs (hmm, that's probably an oxymoron :). There is no OS X-specific code in the cp/mv programs from the coreutils package. > (has Apple submitted them up-stream and accepted)? Not submitted. > If not, what should we > do to get ready for possibly Leopard and/or future XCodes > ditching them? If someone has patches to add this, it might be nice to post them here. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
