[PATCH] adding two new options to 'cp'

[Garance A Drosehn]

At 12:17 PM -0700 7/31/06, Julian Elischer wrote:
>
>Ok I"m going to pipe up here.
>
>The feature is cheap, it is useful and it allows people
>to adopt FreeBSD with less surprises.  I will commit
>this soon unless someone else does it first.

This is not the first time we have had a long thread
about the '-a' option, at least, and if we do not add
it now then we will just debate this again in 8-10
months.  The time wasted in the debate is much worse
than the 160 bytes wasted on the disk.  160 bytes, on
a disk that we allocate room in fragments of what,
4096 byte chunks?  I forget now.

I think Julian has the right idea.
   ... assuming there's no bugs in the code.  I didn't
       actually look at the code.  :-)

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Garance Alistair Drosehn     =               drosehn at rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer               or   gad at FreeBSD.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;             Troy, NY;  USA