[openbeos] Re: cp -p
- From: "David Reid" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 22:11:16 +0100
OK, lets get this part said - once we have the utilities we can do what we
like, even using the original source as abase as long as we credit the
authors... That's why the BSD licence is so cool.
stat based attributes would be very slow (as Bruno said). Lets just let
cp -p work as expected.
At a BSD conference I heard a phrase I think we should all live by for this
stuff...
"The principal of least atonishment"
So for this, if a user does cp -p to keep the attributes to obey the
principal we'd copy the attributes.
david
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred K Ollinger" <follinge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 9:45 PM
Subject: [openbeos] Re: cp -p
> You probably know much more about this than me, so these are only
> respectful remarks.
>
> > This wouldn't really solve the problem, since most of the attributeless
> > folders
> > a ) exist already in archives, on peoples harddrives etc
> > b ) come from other (non-beos) systems (contained in zip files etc),
> > and thus
> > will not have the attributes present...
>
> Right, so cp -p must not change things when it goes off obos. Call only
> stuff from gnu (or bsd) util.
>
> Can't we add an option in cp so that it checks to see what fs it's coming
> from? If it comes from the fs from obos then we use the lib that is used
> for dragging things w/ cp. If it comes from the another os, then it uses
> lib from unix util? I mean code for the preserve attibutes is done, right?
> We just need to link w/ cp.
>
> I suggest forking gnu utils (or bsd). They are done for the most part and
> we want to make beos uniq so I say fork 'em. Probably use bsd utils if we
> want them to be part of distro (flame suit on, sorry).
>
> One of the best parts of beos is consistency.
>
> I'll be willing to try to implement this. I'm setting up a compile beos
> box right now (my old hd died).
>
> Fred
>
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