penguin's behaviour:
elachistos| cp -R foo foo
cp: cannot copy a directory, `foo', into itself, `foo/foo'
:)
2007/10/19, Arnaud Berthomier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On the October 17, at 10:39 (-0700), Bryan Irvine wrote:
> > [...]
> > looks like a feature to me. ;)
>
> Agreed, although it does not seem to exists on GNU/Linux since GNU's cp
> is different from BSD's. The feature is present on {Net,Open,Free}BSD.
>
> It's not that a big deal, is it? Eventually, the question could be: what
> should be limiting cp there? a max_path value, or... himself? I think
> the former's the best.
>
> Just my 2 cents. :)
>
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