From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 22:29:31 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (copy_internal): Remove -r warning; no longer needed.
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-4_1_6~4
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=337e4b174dcf0f959ae113acfb9453849e849328;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(copy_internal): Remove -r warning; no longer needed.
---

diff --git a/src/copy.c b/src/copy.c
index 16493ab4ca..4da2b2190b 100644
--- a/src/copy.c
+++ b/src/copy.c
@@ -1406,14 +1406,6 @@ copy_internal (const char *src_path, const char *dst_path,
 	  goto un_backup;
 	}
 
-      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));
-	}
-
       if (!symlink (src_link_val, dst_path))
 	free (src_link_val);
       else