Re: undesirable behaviour when copying to sshfs/sftp hosts

Ben Morrow <[email protected]> Thu, 2 Aug 2012 22:13:11 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.desktop.rox.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 1PM +1000 on 2/08/12 Jared Henley wrote:
> Here's a patch to change the invocation of cp:
> 
> 596c596
> <     const char *argv[] = {"cp", "-pRf", NULL, NULL, NULL};
> ---
>  >     const char *argv[] = {"cp", "-Rf", "--preserve=mode,timestamps", 
> NULL, NULL, NULL};

Please don't do that without a configure check. Those options to cp are
not portable.

A better solution would be to make this an option, possibly even a
option that can be changed per-copy from the copy dialog.

Ben


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