Re: undesirable behaviour when copying to sshfs/sftp hosts

On 03/08/12 07:13, Ben Morrow wrote:
> 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
>
You're correct.  But since I got no response from the list last time I 
mailed, I
thought I'd better do something about it myself.


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