Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> The problem seems to be that when a destination file is written it is >> done so by opening the file without removing it first. If it is a >> hardlink to a previous destination file from the same command it will >> be overwritten. > > This is required by POSIX.
POSIX doesn't specify the behavior of "cp -a", so it can't require the current coreutils behavior. It's quite possible that we need to change the behavior of "cp -a" to make it more useful for its intended purpose of making archives. However, I don't understand what the undesired behavior is. (Like Philip Rowlands, I can't access the original bug report.) _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
