At 11:39 PM 7/5/00 +0200, Marc Mutz wrote:
>OK, I can reproduce it:
>
>$ mknod testpipe p
>$ cp testpipe pipetest # hangs, so ^C
>$ cp -a testpipe pipetest # succeeds.
>
>So the reason why I saw it and you did not, is that I was using cp -rx
>(I really thought it was cp -rax) and you cp -a.
Probably the difference is between cp -r and cp -R -- the explanation in the
man page won't win any awards for clarity, but the -R setting seems designed
to catch this exact problem. And "cp -a" is simply shorthand for "cp -dpR".
>Sorry for the noise.
No reason to be sorry. It served the purpose of describing to the original
poster (and others) the second good method of doing what he needed to do.
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