* Stephen McKay (smckay_at_internode.on.net) wrote: > It's obvious that "cp" has split hard links for all its life because > the original programmer was lazy. That this laziness has been > codified in POSIX is not something to be cheered, although at this > late stage it may be too hard to fix. A little bird tells me GNU cp has a -d option which makes it handle hardlinks properly, and an -a option so you can just do cp -a src dest. Maybe worth adopting? -- Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst http://hur.st/Received on Tue Apr 12 2005 - 12:59:59 UTC
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