Re: cp'ing passive translators
Neal H Walfield <neal@cs.uml.edu> writes:
> Sure, that is obvious. I suggested in my original email that this
> functionality should be added to cp:
>
> cp does not (yet) copy the Hurd attributes (e.g. the passive
> translator settings).
>
> You said that this should not be made a part of cp. My questions are:
>
> 1) What should `cp -R' do -- you are of two minds and did not explain
> yourself?
cp -R should be more or less like on Linux. However, keep in mind
that we really want the Right Thing to happen; cp -R is already a
mostly broken command. cp -R is an attempt to do what tar should be
doing; I don't claim to have a perfect idea of exactly what the
semantics should be.
> 2) Instead of using cp, what utility should be written / modified to
> copy passive translator settings?
Um, I don't know we really need one. settrans and gettrans should be
fine.
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