[cmake-developers] Using reflinks during install phase

Matthew Woehlke mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net
Fri May 30 13:13:07 EDT 2014


On 2014-05-29 08:56, Brad King wrote:
> I did not realize in my previous response that you intend
> to execute a "cp" process, but rather thought you would
> be implementing the underlying calls to the filesystem
> directly.

That was my assumption also. I would've thought that would be better, as
coreutils basically exists only on Linux. (And even then, someone could
in theory have a different 'cp', though that is unlikely.)

@Alessandro, would you expect this to ever be used on e.g. a BSD or OS/X
system?

-- 
Matthew




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