[openbeos] Re: Laptop trackpad problems in HaikuOS?

  • From: "Jonas Sundström" <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:11:59 +0200 CEST

Simon Taylor <simontaylor1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 ...
> Right it seems the issue I had with cp was to do with attributes
> - it seems cp -a doesn't copy them correctly (even though the 
> -a is equivalent to -dpR, where p says "preserve file attributes
> if possible").

This is GNU's cp, and IIRC it hasn't been extended with support
for BFS' extended attributes. It probably means the standard 
attributes: created/modified timestamps, rwx permissions, .. 

You could use copyattr instead:
  copyattr --recursive --data

/Jonas Sundström.


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