On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:28:40 +0200 Artur Rona wrote: > I am not an author of this patch, just only forwarder. We would like > to upload a fix to this bug. I hoped that this patch will be helpful > for coreutils developers. The idea of this patch (which I copied, as in the LP bug, from Fedora) was to provide a stopgap option until the Linux kernel implements the equivalent. The reason was (or, I guess, still is) that some upstream source rely on this being available, and having the '-i' or '-p' would minimise our deltas. But I knew, from the beginning, that it would not be acceptable upstream. Perhaps with a confluence of all Linux distros that might happen, though. Cheers, -- C de-Avillez IRC: hggdh This email (and any attachments) is digitally signed using GNUpg (http://gnupg.org). The public key is available at http://pgp.mit.edu. The key Id is 0xD3133E56.