cp to infinity.

2007-01-24 Thread Peter Ankerstål 

 cd test/
 mkdir foo
 touch bar
 cp -r * foo/
cp: 
foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo: 
name too long (not copied)
cp: 
foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo: 
name too long (not copied)



It seems FreeBSD cp tries to copy the directory to infinity. Is there an 
option to avoid this?


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Re: cp to infinity.

2007-01-24 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin 

On 1/24/07, Peter Ankerstål [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  cd test/
  mkdir foo
  touch bar
  cp -r * foo/
cp:

name too long (not copied)
cp:

name too long (not copied)


It seems FreeBSD cp tries to copy the directory to infinity. Is there an
option to avoid this?


Sure, just don't copy directories into themselves
recursively.
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Re: cp to infinity.

2007-01-24 Thread Peter Ankerstål 



Sure, just don't copy directories into themselves
recursively.


How hard could it be to make cp avoid this problem?
GNU cp does not have any problems with this action.
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Re: cp to infinity.

2007-01-24 Thread Stevan Tiefert 
Am Mittwoch, 24. Januar 2007 12:50 schrieb Peter Ankerstål:
  Sure, just don't copy directories into themselves
  recursively.

 How hard could it be to make cp avoid this problem?
 GNU cp does not have any problems with this action.
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you have what you want!


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Re: cp to infinity.

2007-01-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

On 24/01/07, Stevan Tiefert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Am Mittwoch, 24. Januar 2007 12:50 schrieb Peter Ankerstål:
  Sure, just don't copy directories into themselves
  recursively.

 How hard could it be to make cp avoid this problem?
 GNU cp does not have any problems with this action.



You need only to write a patch and send it to the developers and voilà
you have what you want!



I doubt it.
name too long (not copied)
Seems a lot more hand-holdy than just consuming
all of your inodes and crashing in an undignified manner
(which is what I would have bet on).
The lesson is:  be more careful with your wildcards,
this is OS, not AI*.


*Doing stupid things just as quickly and efficiently as
smart things is proper operating system design, if
you ask me.
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