On Sat, 1 Aug 2020, Theo de Raadt wrote:
People should really use rsync (which has it's own oddities), ...
For example the ugly behaviour when the source file ends with / ?
Also FreeBSD's cp behave like rsync and is documented in its man page:
-R If source_file designates a directory, cp copies the directory and
the entire subtree connected at that point. If the source_file
ends in a /, ...
It is not documented in 4.4BSD. I suppose this is not original BSD?
Rod.
