Re: Bad cp -a behaviour

[Philip Rowlands]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Paul Eggert wrote:

>The GNU documentation says that "-a" implies "--preserve=links" and
>that "--preserve-links" means "Preserve in the destination files any
>links between corresponding source files."

It also implies -R; should this patch cover that flag in isolation, or
only when accompanied by -d/--preserve=link?

If -R alone doesn't trigger the unlink, then we're still at the mercy of
the filesystem and the order it stores directory entries.


Cheers,
Phil