Re: Heads up: gtar gone from base system

From: Garrett Wollman <wollman_at_khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:49:01 -0500 (EST)
<<On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 21:39:22 +1000, Stephen McKay <smckay_at_internode.on.net> said:

> Tar is indeed a most excellent program for copying directory trees, since
> even in this modern century cp fails to correctly handle hard links.  Sigh.

I believe the record will show that `cp' handles hard links correctly
according to the specification; that's simply not the behavior you
want.  (In POSIX one would use `pax -rw' for that.)

-GAWollman
Received on Wed Mar 30 2005 - 12:49:03 UTC

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