know about?).
If anyone has some ideas I would be happy to produce a patch (assuming
you don't need copyright assignment).
[1] https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=9086
[2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2018-06/msg00011.html
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the m4 file nor cp.c has
changed on those lines since xattr support was added... Disclaimer:
this is gentoo ;).
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Mikael Magnusson
In my old 6.x something, cp would just say
cp: cannot copy a directory, `dir', into itself, `dir/dir'
(it would still do it, but only once)
In 7.1 I get a result like this:
% timeout 1 cp -rl dir dir
% ls -R dir|wc -l
1063
Without the -l it still behaves properly.
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, NULL, 'z'},
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something like cp /foo/* /bar and
you get cp: overwrite arbitrary_file? and you answer yes, it should then
be safe to assume all files from /foo are now in /bar if no error messages
presented themselves, but this is not the case.
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On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Jim Meyering wrote:
Mikael Magnusson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a file a and a fifo b. Running cp a b prompts cp: overwrite
b?, but answering yes just writes the contents of a into the fifo. If
In this particular case, using the gnu-specific --remove-destination
