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A change with the -n option for cp in Mac OS X 10.5
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A change with the -n option for cp in Mac OS X 10.5

Is this the right place for this question?

Under 10.4.10, when executing cp -n, cp would return an exit status of 0 if the file you told it to copy existed or not.

Under 10.5, cp will return an exit status of 1 if the file already exists and one uses the -n option.

I was just wondering if:

1. 10.4.10 had a bug
2. 10.5 has a bug
3. the definition of how the -n option is supposed to work has changed

It seems strange that cp would return an exit status of 1 now if the file already exists. After all, the command will do exactly what it is supposed to do and not copy the file.
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