-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 3/15/2007 6:17 PM: > > 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.
That said, POSIX levies no requirements on the wording of the prompt; perhaps you could propose a patch that rewords "cp: overwrite `/etc/passwd', overriding mode 0644? " into "cp: attempt to overwrite `/etc/passwd', overriding mode 0644? ", making it clear that the question is being asked before the attempt, and that the attempt may still fail. - -- 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+eL584KuGfSFAYARAlOfAKC5pnac8Z+7pKzoxPGn9bgJSSJscgCgxAl3 u/SqUjgphPcwcc56+Kzqca4= =O/ER -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
