Re: cp'ing passive translators
--- "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb@becket.net> wrote:
> Neal H Walfield <neal@cs.uml.edu> writes:
>
> > > Oh, cp -R is different. I'm of two minds about what the Right Thing
> > > is for the cp -R case.
> > >
> > > The way to copy it, of course, is to fetch the translator entry and
> > > set it on the copy.
> >
> > I am not clear what you mean here.
>
> Open the node with O_NOTRANS.
> Fetch the translator spec with file_get_translator.
> Cope the contents of the node to the new file.
> Set the translator spen on the new file with file_set_translator.
>
> Thomas
>
Do cpio, tar and pax do this? Archivers are for making backups.
$ cd /src
$ find . -depth -print | cpio -pdumv /dst
$ cd /src
$ tar cf - . | (cd /dst ; tar xvf -)
$ pax -rwv -s ';/src;/dst;' /src /
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Sports - sign up for Fantasy Baseball
http://sports.yahoo.com
Reply to: