ps: it was a ;-p
Nick Guenther wrote:
On 10/19/07, Tom Van Looy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Richard Toohey wrote:
On 19/10/2007, at 8:12 PM, Raimo Niskanen wrote:
Looks like OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X BSD bits have the same
sort of outcome.
Copy foo to foo only once and quit, I think that's the correct
behaviour. I even think that posix more or less describes that.
That's what it should be doing I guess. But it's tricky, if you start
doing symlinks etc, you'll end up looping sooner or later. What if the
directoy's are not named the same (eg: hard links)?
correction: hard links are not allowed on directory's, ...
that being said, comparing inodes seems the best solution
only, don't give an error but copy once
maybe if I have time this weekend I'll try code that behaviour
Anyway, it has worked like that since years, and I guess nobody has had
a problem with it before. I don't think it should be changed just
because some bored guy playing with it noticed strange output ;-p
Sure, but "bored guy" can translate to "new ideas" and testing
somehow-still-untested code paths. It's worth a shot at fixing.
-Nick
