Hi Tracey, Tracey Emery wrote on Thu, May 23, 2019 at 02:35:10PM -0600:
> Attached is a proposed diff for cp(1). It adds the -l (hard link) > and -s (symlink) options. I don't like that. That's exactly what can be done with ln(1) in a standard way. There is no value in making every tool do everything - quite to that contrary, that only causes gratuitous complication and confusion. > These options are available in GNU cp, FreeBSD cp, > and the -l option is at least in NetBSD and Dragonfly. > > I needed the -l option to use the system cp for rsnapshots, instead of > their native_cl_al function. Hopefully, this will speed up my backups. If the rsnapshots uses such options, i think you should send patches to the rsnapshots project instead. Tell them to use POSIX features instead of relying on pointless GNUisms. Yours, Ingo
