From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 16:00:40 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (usage): Warn about mixing use of `-r' with FIFOs and
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-4_0j-trial~114
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=84e957d30082511664bb98ce9ee2b76b4f62ede5;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(usage): Warn about mixing use of `-r' with FIFOs and
other special files like /dev/zero.
---

diff --git a/src/cp.c b/src/cp.c
index 3e5773b4fe..f85ef234d6 100644
--- a/src/cp.c
+++ b/src/cp.c
@@ -145,6 +145,8 @@ Copy SOURCE to DEST, or multiple SOURCE(s) to DIRECTORY.\n\
   -p, --preserve               preserve file attributes if possible\n\
   -P, --parents                append source path to DIRECTORY\n\
   -r                           copy recursively, non-directories as files\n\
+                                 WARNING: use -R instead when you might copy\n\
+                                 special files like FIFOs or /dev/zero\n\
       --sparse=WHEN            control creation of sparse files\n\
   -R, --recursive              copy directories recursively\n\
   -s, --symbolic-link          make symbolic links instead of copying\n\