cp misfeature
utzoo!henry
utzoo!henry
Wed Mar 24 19:16:53 AEST 1982
The command "cp <directory> <file>" will work, but does not yield a very
intelligible file as a result. Most naive users don't really grasp the
notion that directories are just a special kind of file, and are confused
by the appearance of this strange little gibberish file. We found this
a headache, and since the command seems singularly useless, we added
the following code just after the assignment to "mode" in cp.c/copy():
if ((mode&S_IFMT) == S_IFDIR) {
close(fold);
fprintf(stderr, "cp: %s is a directory -- ignored.\n", from);
return(1);
}
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