Re: Proposal for cp -a

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 04:43:51PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> 
> Because I committed before there was any feedback, and did not realize
> that a one line change would cause issues. Also this is not just Linux
> that has it, FreeBSD added it recently.

Well, it's a small change, and it certainly doesn't break anything,
but it's a very ugly one.  Ugly generally attracts comments.

FreeBSD seems to have a pretty high tolerance for ugly.  And Linux seems
to think ugly is pretty.  Go figure.

Thor