GNU bug report logs - #17087
cp -i/yes gets ignored

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Message #28 received at 17087 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>, 
 Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>
Cc: 17087 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
Subject: Re: bug#17087: cp -i/yes gets ignored
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 08:29:58 -0700

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> In general we should allow these patches a little
> while for review before pushing.

Perhaps I was a bit enthusiastic here, but still, I don't know, when in 
doubt I prefer an Emacs-like approach (push early and often and fix as 
soon as you can) to a glibc-like approach (everything needs review and 
lots of problems just don't get fixed).  If coreutils had used the glibc 
approach, I wouldn't have bothered to improve cp's diagnostics here, as 
it would have been too much trouble.  Even now, the maintenance 
procedures of coreutils are enough of a pain, and the code is enough of 
a tangle, that nobody is following up on Karl's eminently reasonable 
suggestions to improve cp's behavior in this area.

> Hopefully the attached fixes up these issues.

Thanks, I pushed it for you.

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