Return-Path: Delivered-To: new-httpd-archive@hyperreal.org Received: (qmail 7485 invoked by uid 6000); 10 Apr 1998 10:14:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 7476 invoked from network); 10 Apr 1998 10:14:11 -0000 Received: from slarti.muc.de (193.174.4.10) by taz.hyperreal.org with SMTP; 10 Apr 1998 10:14:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 15951 invoked by uid 66); 10 Apr 1998 10:11:59 -0000 Received: by en1.engelschall.com (Sendmail 8.8.8) for new-httpd@apache.org id MAA18458; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 12:13:21 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199804101013.MAA18458@en1.engelschall.com> Subject: Re: Portability: cp -R or cp -r or what? To: new-httpd@apache.org Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 12:13:21 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ralf "S." Engelschall From: rse@engelschall.com (Ralf S. Engelschall) Organization: Engelschall, Germany. X-Home: http://www.engelschall.com/ X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: new-httpd-owner@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org In article <352DEF99.DEDCC1C3@Golux.Com> you wrote: > Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: >> >> On the other hand, on systems like FreeBSD "cp -r" exists but does not the >> same as "cp -R" (copies no symlinks, etc.). To make the situation totally >> confusion we can recognize that even using "tar" or "cpio" is not a great >> solution, isn't it? Because there are also differences. > What does the auto{conf,*} stuff use? I'm semi-serious here.. I grep'ed through its source and they never to a recursive copy. They only have situations where they copy single files, but never recursive. Ralf S. Engelschall rse@engelschall.com www.engelschall.com