On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:45:03AM +1300, Paul M wrote: > This always confused me - Presumably there is some reason why the > implimentation > of the -r flag could not be fixed to copy symlinks, FIFOs, etc > correctly.
Existing scripts could rely on the behaviour of the history -r;
changing it could break those scripts very badly. There are only
two options: either remove -r completely from cp(1), or keep it and
don't touch its behaviour.
Ciao,
Kili
