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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2002-03-02 17:17:49 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2002-03-02 17:17:49 +0000 |
| commit | 3c3e5c4a312f757a2f4e2ffaeb2212ce180b72fe (patch) | |
| tree | 1153f6a55fdc600502ebdcab92bc4dd10a5dd40f | |
| parent | e2497bb4fd2f534b3dde89c2c8e6d4df4d5e1291 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-3c3e5c4a312f757a2f4e2ffaeb2212ce180b72fe.tar.xz | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | src/copy.c | 2 |
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diff --git a/src/copy.c b/src/copy.c index eb369b243..16493ab4c 100644 --- a/src/copy.c +++ b/src/copy.c @@ -1408,6 +1408,8 @@ copy_internal (const char *src_path, const char *dst_path, if (x->recursive && x->copy_as_regular) { + /* Warn that applying `cp -r' to symlinks is not portable, + but go ahead and preserve the symlink. */ error (0, 0, _("%s: WARNING: using -r to copy symbolic\ links is not portable"), quote (src_path)); } |