Re: Drastic change in behaviour of "cp -ab" betwee V5.93 and V6.3

[Andreas Schwab]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

This patch did not change the behaviour, it was already present before
that (though implemented in a more roundabout way).  The real change has
sneaked in with revision 1.197 of copy.c.

Andreas.

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