From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 17:16:42 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (copy_internal): For each symlink copied by cp -r,
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-4_1_6~18
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e2497bb4fd2f534b3dde89c2c8e6d4df4d5e1291;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(copy_internal): For each symlink copied by cp -r,
issue a warning that `cp -r' is not portable.
---

diff --git a/src/copy.c b/src/copy.c
index 4da2b2190b..eb369b243e 100644
--- a/src/copy.c
+++ b/src/copy.c
@@ -1406,6 +1406,12 @@ copy_internal (const char *src_path, const char *dst_path,
 	  goto un_backup;
 	}
 
+      if (x->recursive && x->copy_as_regular)
+	{
+	  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