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Re: Drastic change in behaviour of "cp -ab" betwee V5.93 and V6.3
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Drastic change in behaviour of "cp -ab" betwee V5.93 and V6.3 |
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Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:26:39 -0700 |
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Peter Breitenlohner <address@hidden> writes:
> I cannot believe that the new behaviour is intentional, and IMHO it doesn't
> make much sense.
Looking at the patch that changed the behavior:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-08/msg00285.html
it appears you're right. That was a fix to mv, but I guess
it inadvertently affected cp. Jim would know more, though.