On 24/01/07, Stevan Tiefert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 24. Januar 2007 12:50 schrieb Peter Ankerstål: > > Sure, just don't copy directories into themselves > > recursively. > > How hard could it be to make cp avoid this problem? > GNU cp does not have any problems with this action.
You need only to write a patch and send it to the developers and voilà you have what you want!
I doubt it. "name too long (not copied)" Seems a lot more hand-holdy than just consuming all of your inodes and crashing in an undignified manner (which is what I would have bet on). The lesson is: be more careful with your wildcards, this is OS, not AI*. *Doing stupid things just as quickly and efficiently as smart things is proper operating system design, if you ask me. -- -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
