Re: oskit-mach: gdb_break_stub() confusion

[Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>]

> Neal H Walfield <neal@cs.uml.edu> writes:
> 
> > > cp should not copy passive translator settings.
> > 
> > Why not?  And what is the right way to copy them?
> 
> Because cp is supposed to copy the data of the file; it should read
> the data.  
> 
> For example, on Linux, if you do 
> mknod /dev/foo ...
> cp /dev/foo /tmp/bar
> 
> then /tmp/bar is *not* a special file, it's the *contents* of what you
> get when you read /dev/foo.

That is not the case with `cp -a', however.