Berkley-isms (was: Why no job control in 386/ix)

[Pim Zandbergen]

Kemp at DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL writes:



>Just for the record, is there *any* way to do a recursive copy
>correctly?  I.e.  one that doesn't:

> * turn symbolic links into actual files
> * turn link loops into a series of infinitely nested copies
> * alter the modify and change times
> * choke on block and character special files
> * turn holes in sparse files into real disk blocks

I think afio will do this. I am not sure about the symlink
stuff, though, as we're a SYS V only site.
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