Re: [PATCH] Cogito documentation updates

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Nov 23, 2005, 17:29 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511230923131.13959@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <8664qjph7d.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

> 
> Delete the -d switch, or explain to me why it is there, and let's work
> out a POSIX workaround.

It's

       -d:     same as --no-dereference --preserve=link

       --no-dereference
              never follow symbolic links

       --preserve[=ATTR_LIST]
              preserve   the   specified   attributes   (default:  mode,owner-
              ship,timestamps) and security contexts, if  possible  additional
              attributes: links, all

so it's basically making sure that the copy copies the _link_, not the file it points to.

I think you may have to use "cpio -p" instead of "cp" to be portable. Something like

	cpio -plmu $src $dst

might do it.

		Linus