Thanks a lot Martin _ that's very helpful ! Jean-Francois
On 20 May 2008, at 18:32, Martin Costabel wrote: > Just for the record: > > Jean-François Mertens wrote: > [] >> 1) among others there was the question >> 'what does "man cp" tell about the -P flag ? ' >> I was suspicious because of the warnings >> "cp: Warning: the meaning of `-P' will change in the future to >> conform to POSIX. >> Use `--parents' for the old meaning, and `--no-dereference' for >> the new one." >> that I saw in the log-file you had posted there. > > I don't see such a warning coming from Leopard's cp. > And indeed the explanation in "man cp" of the -P flag has not changed: > > "-P If the -R option is specified, no symbolic links are > followed. This is the default." > > This means in particular that the -P flag is superfluous. Indeed, both for coreutils' and for Apple's cp then. (Or could it be that coreutils' cp is different under 10.5 than under 10.4 ??) But it is just a precaution motivated by the following extract from coreutils info file, for cp : `-R' `-r' `--recursive' > It is not portable to > use `-r' to copy symbolic links or special files. On some non- > GNU > systems, `-r' implies the equivalent of `-L' and `--copy- > contents' > for historical reasons. Also, it is not portable to use `-R' to > copy symbolic links unless you also specify `-P', as POSIX allows > implementations that dereference symbolic links by default. > >> 2) As to Alexander's reply, > [] >> another question I asked in your bug tracker item was : >> "under 10.4, man setpgrp and man setpgid refer to the same >> manpage, and >> they are defined as identical. >> What exactly has changed in 10.5 in this respect ?" > > 10.4: > int > setpgrp(pid_t pid, pid_t pgrp); > > 10.5: > pid_t > setpgrp(void); > > Both have > int > setpgid(pid_t pid, pid_t pgid); > > -- > Martin > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
