On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Mark Kirkwood <mar...@paradise.net.nz> wrote: > > LOL - Joerg was just making a point that GNU variant of cp is a little > > different from the 'standard' UNIX (hmm - is there really such a > > thing?) version of cp. Err, on this list the point is a little oblique > > to say the least - since all Linux userland is GNU. > > Which is a problem as the GNU tools do not support Linux specific features. > For this reason, GNU cp cannot copy all file metadata on Linux.... >
and which data is not copied? > > I thought that people should be interested in learning that it is bad to > give advise based on generic third party tools without telling that > the tool is neither a local tool nor the generic UNIX tool. Gcp is > a third party tool on Linux and there is no generic Linux cp ;-) oh really? and which cp is the native cp on linux? a little hint: GNU/LInux
