Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 09:06:53 -0400
From: "D'Arcy Cain" <da...@netbsd.org>
Message-ID: <409f3df1-c91c-897c-e4ea-98413263f...@netbsd.org>
| Do you think that this is a candidate for a pullup to 8?
You've already been informed that it is too late for 8.0 (and I don't think
that is the kind of change that is suitable for 8.0.1 - but it might be for
8.1)
You do understand though that you have changed the semantics? The
old way, cp -l would only link the files that could have been copied, now
it will happily link unreadable files. Also cp -il will no longer work, and
probably more.
With this change, I don't really know why the option needs to exist at
all, cp -l seems to be just a defective implementation of ln -f .. I'd be
inclined to simply delete the -l option (or simply exec "ln" when the -l
option is given to cp, if there is some good reason for having a -l option).
kre
