Subject: bug#73875: cp: there isn't even an option to quit on errors

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 18:46:45 +0100

On 20/10/2024 15:21, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Well OK, it is creating an unusable copy, and probably doesn't
> even return an error to the calling shell.
> 
> So Makefiles using it will go on to the next step... with the final
> result being missing files, discovered just minutes away from the boss's
> big ceremony...

Any error is propagated to the exit status,
so one can always determine if any part of the copy fails.

cheers,
Pádraig.