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bug#9027: [PATCH] doc: note that cp -l creates _hard_ links


From: Benoît Knecht
Subject: bug#9027: [PATCH] doc: note that cp -l creates _hard_ links
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 10:17:20 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

This fact was already noted in the Texinfo manual, but not in the output
of --help.

* src/cp.c (usage): As above, for --help.
Reported by Jari Aalto in http://bugs.debian.org/294327.
---
 THANKS.in |    1 +
 src/cp.c  |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/THANKS.in b/THANKS.in
index 87c5b19..4bbee80 100644
--- a/THANKS.in
+++ b/THANKS.in
@@ -261,6 +261,7 @@ Jan Moringen                        address@hidden
 Jan Nieuwenhuizen                   address@hidden
 Jan-Pawel Wrozstinski               address@hidden
 Janos Farkas                        address@hidden
+Jari Aalto                          address@hidden
 Jarkko Hietaniemi                   address@hidden
 Jarod Wilson                        address@hidden
 Jean Charles Delepine               address@hidden
diff --git a/src/cp.c b/src/cp.c
index 859f21b..15f3aa9 100644
--- a/src/cp.c
+++ b/src/cp.c
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short 
options too.\n\
   -H                           follow command-line symbolic links in SOURCE\n\
 "), stdout);
       fputs (_("\
-  -l, --link                   link files instead of copying\n\
+  -l, --link                   hard link files instead of copying\n\
   -L, --dereference            always follow symbolic links in SOURCE\n\
 "), stdout);
       fputs (_("\
-- 
1.7.5.4






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