-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Dan Jacobson on 3/15/2007 2:05 PM: > JM> They're not bound to fail. > JM> An "alternate access method" (e.g., an ACL) may allow it to succeed. > > Does it "cost much more" to check first that too then before asking? > E.g., if I were a secretary, I would double check if the lunch were > already cancelled before asking the boss if he wants to attend.
Sorry, but POSIX requires the current behavior. If it bothers you that much, then take it up with the Austin group with proposed wording that allows your desired behavior without breaking 30 years of legacy use that depends on the current behavior. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/cp.html - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! 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 iD8DBQFF+eEi84KuGfSFAYARAhTrAKCjPNiO5QmpEVUnuJPWa2FjEssj9gCfXth9 Q9klKUebI8p25VGWDQFX0cM= =36+b -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
