Looking at what was/is going on, this smells of hackery of the
most offensive kind.

To quote a phrase,

	"Was this trip _really_ necessary?"



> ----------
> From: 	Klaus Klein[SMTP:kleink@layla.inka.de]
> Sent: 	Monday, May 19, 1997 7:43 AM
> To: 	proprietor - Foo Bar And Grill
> Cc: 	current-users@NetBSD.ORG
> Subject: 	Re: old cp not compatible with current namei() 
> 
> On Mon, 19 May 1997 06:25:54 -0700 (PDT)
>  proprietor - Foo Bar And Grill <greywolf@starwolf.com> wrote:
> 
> > Okay, while POSIX compatibility is a questionably desirable thing,
> > has anyone fixed cp to be compatible with namei()?
> > 
> > # cp netbsd /
> > overwrite /netbsd? y
> > cp: : No such file or directory
> > #
> 
> This particular bug was fixed one day after committing the namei() 
> changes. As a sidenote, I've introduced another bug in cp(1) by
> doing that, but today's supscan contains a fixed version.
> 
>