Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 09:05:47 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: patl@phoenix.volant.org, robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ACL's Message-ID: <199903142205.JAA20202@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> > Recursive cp? (The intuitive, simple, *man page recommended* way to copy >> > a directory from one hard disk to another?) >> >> Then the man page needs to be fixed to recommend something that actually >> works correctly. > >It seems counter-intuitive that the copy utility with the recursive flag >be the incorrect way to recursively copy :-). cp -pR (and thus mv across file systems) are broken (non-POSIX.2 conformant). They snap hard links and don't preserve directory timestamps. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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