From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 17:17:49 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: add a comment
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-4_1_6~17
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3c3e5c4a312f757a2f4e2ffaeb2212ce180b72fe;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

add a comment
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diff --git a/src/copy.c b/src/copy.c
index eb369b243e..16493ab4ca 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));
 	}