Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> 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. > > But the only way to find out is to try. ACLs allow file systems to > "change their minds", so you don't know for sure whether the lunch was > cancelled until you show up and try to eat. The same principle > applies here. > > That being said, the prompt could be improved, as Eric wrote. > > Also, this is the only place I know of in coreutils where a mode > is output only in bare octal notation; we might as well be friendlier > and output a symbolic mode as well. > > Here's a proposed patch. > > 2007-03-16 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * src/copy.c: Include filemode.h. > (overwrite_prompt): Say "try to overwrite", not "overwrite", to > make it clearer that the attempt may fail. Problem reported by > Dan Jacobson in: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-03/msg00130.html > Output symbolic mode as well as numeric. > * tests/mv/i-2 (fail): Adjust to new prompt format.
Thank you both, again :-) I've applied that, too. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
