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Re: stat() and its consequences (was: Re: Strange behavior while copying files)



>   1. cp -a needs to be anhanced to know about translators.

True.

>   2. The translators created files in / when started. IIRC,
>      translators should be started with a current directory which is
>      the place where they were installed in the file system. Creating
>      files with non-relative names from a translator doesn't seem like
>      a bad thing to be doing (although there certainly are some
>      exceptions).

False.  This is impossible because we never know where the cwd of a
translator will be; this is up to the underlying filesystem.

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