vos does not follow external links

[andamian]

Hi,

This actually does work but only if you provide -L flag. This -L is required as vcp is always recursive and in cp recursive copies require -L to follow links.

Assuming we want to make vcp better I see Two solutions appear possible.

A. We could make -r required for recursive copy and then vcp will follow links during a direct copy and require -L to follow links in a recursive copy. This would make vcp more like unix cp

B. We could make vcp copy a link if that is the file given on the command line, so that implies vcp is not recursive and thus -L is not needed.

We could also not require -L to follow links in any circumstance, but this would not be very kind behaviour and I don't think its a good idea.

A. would make vcp more compatible and easier for new users but change behaviour in a way that current users might not like.

B. would change behaviour but likely make the command more like what people want.

I've had to respond to a few people to explain that vcp is always recursive and would be OK with removing that as the default behaviour and changing the need for -L to be limited to when -r is present.