Bill Hart wrote:
> I see -a is the same as -dpR, and clearly -R is not needed as only one
> file is copied.
>
> What does the -d do? I don't understand the man file (not unusual,
> linux man documentation is incomprehensible).
>
> I would need to know what that does and whether it is needed before I
> could give this patch a positive review.
>
> Bill.
-d is only relevant for symbolic links.
-d same as --no-dereference --preserve=links
Then the man page says that P or --no-dereference is 'never follow
symbolic links.'
-P, --no-dereference
never follow symbolic links in SOURCE
But -d has the option to preserve specific links.
So for all practical purposes, since there are no links, -p is good enough.
>
> On 6 July, 08:29, "Dr. David Kirkby" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Bill Hart wrote:
>>> I've just released FLINT 1.4. Get it athttp://www.flintlib.org/
>> Note, if flint is updated, my fix for Solaris still needs a review at
>>
>> http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/6451
>>
>> which fixes a GNUism in spkg-install, and is not a fault of flint.
>>
>> Perhaps someone could review that. It should not take too much time, as
>> it is only a change of one byte, from the '-a' to the '-p' option of the
>> 'cp' command.
>>
>> Only one file is copied, so there is no need for the copy to be recursive.
> >
>
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