[m-dev.] diff: use cp -pr in bootcheck

[Fergus Henderson]

On 07-Jul-2000, Peter Ross <petdr at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> tools/bootcheck:
>     Add the -p flag to cp.

How portable is the `-p' flag to `cp'?
Is that part of some relevant standard (e.g. the appropriate POSIX standard,
or the various Unix standards).

(I think the answer is probably yes, but it would be nice to know for sure.)

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