On 2023-03-31 13:01 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 2023-03-31 10:01, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote:
>> Is this on purpose?
>
> Yes, part of the idea was to let shell programmers easily test whether
> cp successfully copied the data.
By making them stop using the '-n' option, since they cannot rely on the
exit code anyway?
> Having cp -i conform to POSIX was a
> lesser consideration, though it's a bit nicer if -n and -i are
> somewhat consistent.
It is not so nice that this is probably going to break several dozen
packages in Debian alone. :-(
Cheers,
Sven
