Re: mv, cp ask anyway though bound to fail

[Eric Blake]

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According to Eric Blake on 3/15/2007 6:17 PM:
> 
> Sorry, but POSIX requires the current behavior.  If it bothers you that
> much, then take it up with the Austin group with proposed wording that
> allows your desired behavior without breaking 30 years of legacy use that
> depends on the current behavior.

That said, POSIX levies no requirements on the wording of the prompt;
perhaps you could propose a patch that rewords "cp: overwrite
`/etc/passwd', overriding mode 0644? " into "cp: attempt to overwrite
`/etc/passwd', overriding mode 0644? ", making it clear that the question
is being asked before the attempt, and that the attempt may still fail.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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