Re: [PATCH] in place option for unexpand

[Pádraig Brady]

Sami Kerola wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 15:20, Sami Kerola <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Well I changed rename to copy that is part of coreutils and use the
>> call in move_mode. I did not send new patch because I want to be sure
>> my employer has signed papers stating that they have no right to my
>> contributions to coreutils. Perhaps I should wait copyright papers to
>> get ready before making questions. It's a bit difficult to ask
>> questions && get correct answers when you don't see what I am talking
>> about.
> 
> Hello again,
> 
> My legal papers are ready to be sent to Boston. I'll be in touch with
> GNU copyright personel tomorrow. Since it should be now safe to send
> patches here is next one. Quite honestly I am not 100% happy about it.
> The patch does quite much everything that you'd expect, but there are
> two issues.

The patch adds loads of options to unexpand from a 10s look.
I thought all we were going to do was add a simple
patch to cp to support the --attributes-only option?

Then inplace editing falls naturally from
a simple wrapper around that.

cheers,
Pádraig.