cp weirdness on /dev

[Net Llama!]

On 11/27/03 08:59, Joel Hammer wrote:
> Machine A is a caldera 2.4 box. I am sure it isn't using devfs. The puzzling
> thing is that the file system I am trying to tranfer was created with cp
> -au.
> 
> Have they changed cp?
> 
> cp (coreutils) 4.5.10 is the version with which I am trying to copy. 
> 
> cp (GNU fileutils) 4.0 was the version used to create these file. 

cp isn't at all relevant, IMO.  The filesystem is all that would matter, 
however I'm wondering if samba is the problem.  Have you tried using rsync, 
or scp instead to move the files?

> 
> Joel
> 
>  
> 
>>You're not using devfs on box a, are you?  If so, that would explain the 
>>weirdness, since my understanding is that everything under /dev is 
>>automagically generated, rather than a static file (like /proc).


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