Linda Walsh wrote:
if for some reason a symlink cannot be linked to, then the symlink should be copied (not what the symlink is pointing to, but the actual contents of the symlink inode -- i.e. the redirection path).
Sure, but that's asking for different functionality than what's documented, and it's possible that others are relying on the documented behavior, so it's not clear how to proceed here. Perhaps cp needs yet another option. I hope not.
