Re: First timer: Finder Copy vs. cp
Re: First timer: Finder Copy vs. cp
- Subject: Re: First timer: Finder Copy vs. cp
- From: Michael Smith <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:47:39 -0700
On Aug 10, 2006, at 10:32 AM, Dan Shoop wrote:
Bottom line if you want the behavior of the Finder you need to use
the Finder. Neither ditto, cp, tar, rsync or other tools handle
metadata in the exact same manner.
Ah. Yes, I saw that might be the main drawback. Do you think there
might be
a way to correct this, or would BSD simply alter any changes to cp?
cp is a BSD environment tool. The issue is that different
environments "see" different views of the filesystem metadata. BSD,
for instance, uses copyfile(). Carbon has yet different system
calls for copying files. Hence the behaviors are different.
Which operating system are you talking about here? There is no "BSD
environment" in Darwin, and "BSD" doesn't "alter any changes".
The differences in metadata handling between various toolsets is
historical, not an artefact of some mythical "envronmental
constraint". See the lengthy but informative thread on this topic a
few months back.
= Mike
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