From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 25 11:50:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-64-173-15-98.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.173.15.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 374CC37B42C for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:50:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@osd.bsdi.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.3/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f3PIo9M93924; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:50:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@osd.bsdi.com) To: sheldonh@uunet.co.za Cc: jwd@bsdwins.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@awfulhak.org Subject: Re: Updated: cp -t patch (w/ commentary) In-Reply-To: <51638.988207571@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> References: <20010425100118.A35414@bsdwins.com> <51638.988207571@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.1 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010425115009H.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:50:09 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 13 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > However, a specific hack to cp(1) is what a lot of people don't like. > If FreeBSD contained every little hack every committer had used to > address specific problems, it'd be a mess. I was told that the "hack" everyone is referring to is already implemented in several other operating systems, but I must confess that my searches so far haven't turned up the expected evidence. I did find a rather useful `-u' flag to cp in Redhat 6.2 which FreeBSD could probably stand to adopt, but other than that... I may have to reverse myself on this one if I can't find at least one other vendor which has adopted -t. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message