The following reply was made to PR bin/37018; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: dieter roelants <dieter.NetBSD@pandora.be>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: Bernd Ernesti <netbsd@lists.veego.de>
Subject: Re: bin/37018: cp(1) verbose flag stops working after error
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:13:04 +0200

 On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:15:09 +0000 (UTC)
 Bernd Ernesti <netbsd@lists.veego.de> wrote:
 
 >  Hmm, do you mean that despite the error, cp continued to copy files
 >  after the error?
 
 yes.
 
 >  Shouldn't cp stop after an error?
 
 To be honest, I hadn't thought about that (I just found it wrong to
 continue without being verbose). But the SUSv3 spec of cp(1) says in
 almost all error cases to continue with the next source file. In the
 remaining cases, the behaviour is unspecified.
 
 dieter
 
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 >  Bernd
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