On 03/05/18 23:24, Ernesto Alfonso wrote: > did not reply all > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Ernesto Alfonso <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, May 3, 2018 at 11:10 PM > Subject: Re: bug#31335: unexpected cp -f behavior > To: Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> > > > To be honest, I think cp -f should behave consistently with rm -f. > > $ ln -s self self > $ rm -f self > $ echo $? > 0 > > It's also what I would expect, if I use -f, I expect cp will do everything > it can to force the operation and succeed if all possible.
Maybe, though that's worth further consideration. For example rm -f doesn't do everything possible to allow deleting a file. What if the symlinks where only temporarily dangling due to unmounted dest for example. I've pushed at the fix for --remove at: https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=v8.29-36-ga391007 marking this as done cheers, Pádraig.
