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Re: Bad cp -a behaviour

From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Bad cp -a behaviour
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:19:29 +0200
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Philip Rowlands <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

If -R is used alone we are inside the realms of the POSIX spec which
requires this behaviour.

Andreas.

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