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

[Peter Ross]

On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 05:55:35PM +1000, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> 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.)
> 
I don't have access to any of the standards, but it is supported under
solaris and osf.  So I imagine that it is standard.

Pete
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