#8 non-portable option for cp

[Klaus Heinz]

Hi,

the program fvwm-themes-config uses

system("cp -af * '../../$dest'");

but option "-a" for cp is a GNU extension.
Please use "-dpR" instead which should have the same
effect, according to the man page for cp on Debian 3.

ciao
Klaus Heinz

[Mikhael Goikhman]

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This is not that simple, since "cp -a" also applies --no-dereference
and although newer GNU cp versions have this option aliased to "-P",
older versions gave a different meaning to "-P".

In any case, it is better to avoid using "cp -a" whenever possible.