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- Autzoo.1503
- net.bugs.v7
- utcsrgv!utzoo!henry
- Wed Mar 24 19:16:53 1982
- cp misfeature
- The command "cp <directory> <file>" will work, but does not yield a very
- intelligible file as a result. Most naive users don't really grasp the
- notion that directories are just a special kind of file, and are confused
- by the appearance of this strange little gibberish file. We found this
- a headache, and since the command seems singularly useless, we added
- the following code just after the assignment to "mode" in cp.c/copy():
-
- if ((mode&S_IFMT) == S_IFDIR) {
- close(fold);
- fprintf(stderr, "cp: %s is a directory -- ignored.\n", from);
- return(1);
- }
-