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Diffstat (limited to 'src/copy.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/copy.h | 26 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/copy.h b/src/copy.h index a2bd02644..6b949d048 100644 --- a/src/copy.h +++ b/src/copy.h @@ -31,12 +31,20 @@ enum Interactive I_UNSPECIFIED }; +/* How to handle symbolic links. */ enum Dereference_symlink { DEREF_UNDEFINED = 1, - DEREF_ALWAYS, + + /* Copy the symbolic link itself. -P */ DEREF_NEVER, - DEREF_COMMAND_LINE_ARGUMENTS + + /* If the symbolic is a command line argument, then copy + its referent. Otherwise, copy the symbolic link itself. -H */ + DEREF_COMMAND_LINE_ARGUMENTS, + + /* Copy the referent of the symbolic link. -L */ + DEREF_ALWAYS }; # define VALID_SPARSE_MODE(Mode) \ @@ -52,7 +60,7 @@ struct cp_options them, symbolic links,) as if they were regular files. */ int copy_as_regular; - /* If nonzero, dereference symbolic links (copy the files they point to). */ + /* How to handle symlinks. */ enum Dereference_symlink dereference; /* If nonzero, remove each existing destination nondirectory before @@ -92,6 +100,18 @@ struct cp_options int preserve_mode; int preserve_timestamps; + /* Enabled for mv, and for cp by the --preserve=links option. + If nonzero, attempt to preserve in the destination files any + logical hard links between the source files. If used with cp's + --no-dereference option, and copying two hard-linked files, + the two corresponding destination files will also be hard linked. + + If used with cp's --dereference (-L) option, then, as that option implies, + hard links are *not* preserved. However, when copying a file F and + a symlink S to F, the resulting S and F in the destination directory + will be hard links to the same file (a copy of F). */ + int preserve_links; + /* If nonzero and any of the above (for preserve) file attributes cannot be applied to a destination file, treat it as a failure and return nonzero immediately. E.g. cp -p requires this be nonzero, mv requires |