A NOTE has been added to this issue. ====================================================================== https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1824 ====================================================================== Reported By: dag-erling Assigned To: ====================================================================== Project: Issue 8 drafts Issue ID: 1824 Category: Shell and Utilities Type: Clarification Requested Severity: Editorial Priority: normal Status: New Name: Dag-Erling Smørgrav Organization: User Reference: Section: Utilities Page Number: 2741-2748 Line Number: 90593-90715, 90876-90880 Final Accepted Text: ====================================================================== Date Submitted: 2024-04-01 15:31 UTC Last Modified: 2024-04-04 16:59 UTC ====================================================================== Summary: cp: directories and symlinks ======================================================================
---------------------------------------------------------------------- (0006740) geoffclare (manager) - 2024-04-04 16:59 https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1824#c6740 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- What is there before line 90628 that makes you think its context is traversal of the source? I'm not seeing it. Quite the opposite, as line 90613 says "The term source_file refers to the file that is being copied, whether specified as an operand or a file in a file hierarchy rooted in a source_file operand." Lines 90619-90620 say "If none of the options −H, −L, nor −P were specified, it is unspecified which of −H, −L, or −P will be used as a default." It doesn't make any sense to try and think of this in terms of it applying to certain files and not to others. It is simply saying "cp -R a b" can behave the same as "cp -RH a b", "cp -RL a b", or "cp -RP a b". You assert that I claimed "the default behavior should be to follow symbolic links". That is not true. I said that the pathname resolution rules require that symbolic links are followed except when a certain set of conditions is met. For cp, one of those exception conditions is that the -P option is in effect. If a cp implementation has -P as the default when none of -H, -L or -P is specified, then that condition is met by default and symlinks will not be followed by default. Issue History Date Modified Username Field Change ====================================================================== 2024-04-01 15:31 dag-erling New Issue 2024-04-01 15:31 dag-erling Name => Dag-Erling Smørgrav 2024-04-01 15:31 dag-erling Section => Utilities 2024-04-01 15:31 dag-erling Page Number => 2741-2748 2024-04-01 15:31 dag-erling Line Number => 90593-90715, 90876-90880 2024-04-02 06:19 dannyniu Note Added: 0006731 2024-04-02 06:20 dannyniu Note Added: 0006732 2024-04-02 06:21 dannyniu Note Deleted: 0006732 2024-04-02 06:22 dannyniu Note Edited: 0006731 2024-04-02 15:51 geoffclare Note Added: 0006734 2024-04-04 14:30 geoffclare Note Added: 0006737 2024-04-04 16:01 dag-erling Note Added: 0006739 2024-04-04 16:59 geoffclare Note Added: 0006740 ======================================================================
