Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:59:40 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "James B. Wilkinson" <jimmy@CS.cofc.EDU> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: errata-3 Message-ID: <20010205125940.D462@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <a0501040bb6a25addadd9@[153.9.17.27]>; from jimmy@CS.cofc.EDU on Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 08:19:22PM -0500 References: <200102040202.f1422dJ34045@freefall.freebsd.org> <a0501040bb6a25addadd9@[153.9.17.27]>
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On Saturday, 3 February 2001 at 20:19:22 -0500, James B. Wilkinson wrote: > Third edition: > > > page 67, commands right at the top: > > Why not just use "cp -R xxxx" instead of the two tars connected by a > pipe? That's what I did, and it seemed to work just fine for me. > Also, I don't understand why the floppies directory needs to be a > special case. As luck would have it, the explanation came by in the form of a commit message 45 minutes after this message: On Saturday, 3 February 2001 at 18:02:39 -0800, Stephen McKay wrote: > mckay 2001/02/03 18:02:39 PST > > Modified files: > bin/cp cp.1 > Log: > In the hope of saving others from hours of tedious recovery work, > document that cp still isn't very useful for recursive copies even > with the -R flag. This is because hard links are broken by cp. > > Revision Changes Path > 1.18 +11 -1 src/bin/cp/cp.1 > > > page 113, three quarters of the way down: > > # cd /cdrom/ports/graphics > # mkdir -p /usr/ports/graphics > # tar cf - . | (cd /usr/ports/graphics; tar xvf -) > > The preceding paragraph implies that we want to do something with the > subdirectory /usr/ports/graphics/hpscan. However, that directory is > never mentioned in any of these commands. I'm not sure this is wrong, > but I don't see how it could possibly do anything to or in the hpscan > directory. By default, tar is recursive. But yes, I didn't need to move the other directories. I'll put this one on my "to do" list. > page 167, first line right at the top: > > # passwd > > should be > > # passwd yana Right, thanks. > errata-3 can't be still current, but I don't see an errata-4 on your > ftp site. In any case they could have moved into a later edition. No, we're still negotiating the next edition. > If I'm wrong about any of this, please let me know. I need to learn. That's fine. Thanks for the input. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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