From 6b16f76f42abfa05226351b9566f7597b51fefa2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Laurent Bercot Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 23:29:47 +0000 Subject: Remove s6-hiercopy Version: rc for 2.0.1.0 --- doc/index.html | 7 +++--- doc/s6-hiercopy.html | 66 ---------------------------------------------------- doc/upgrade.html | 7 ++++++ 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 doc/s6-hiercopy.html (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/index.html b/doc/index.html index ca9721c..a899be8 100644 --- a/doc/index.html +++ b/doc/index.html @@ -32,7 +32,9 @@

A Linux-based system with a standard C development environment

GNU make, version 4.0 or later

skalibs version -2.1.0.0 or later

+2.3.1.0 or later. It's a build-time requirement. It's also a run-time +requirement if you link against the shared version of the skalibs +library.

Licensing

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Download

The current released version of s6-linux-utils is 2.0.0.1.
The current released version of s6-linux-utils is 2.0.1.0.
Alternatively, you can checkout a copy of the s6-linux-utils git repository:
```
 git clone git://git.skarnet.org/s6-linux-utils 
```

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The s6-devd program

The s6-freeramdisk program

The s6-halt program

The s6-hiercopy program

The s6-hostname program

The s6-logwatch program

The s6-mount program

diff --git a/doc/s6-hiercopy.html b/doc/s6-hiercopy.html deleted file mode 100644 index e8dd2ed..0000000 --- a/doc/s6-hiercopy.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,66 +0,0 @@ - - - - - s6-linux-utils: the s6-hiercopy program - - - - - - -

-s6-linux-utils
-Software
-skarnet.org -

- -

The `s6-hiercopy` program

- -

-s6-hiercopy copies a directory structure recursively. -

- -

Interface

- -

-     s6-hiercopy source destination
-

- -

s6-hiercopy recursively copies source to -destination, which is created if it doesn't exist. -The permissions are preserved. The owner and group are preserved -if the user is the superuser.
It exits 0 on success and 111 on temporary failure.

- -

Notes

- -

- Copying files and browsing through directories is one of Unix's -weakest points, and s6-hiercopy is not meant to work around -the problem; it's only a quick hack that I needed to boot my embedded -platform. I originally planned to write the ultimate cp utility, -portable and reliable and featureful and everything - while needing -approximately a hundred times less resources than GNU cp does, -of course. But I eventually dropped the idea: it's just impossible to -design, much less write, such a utility. -

- -

You can't make it portable because there's no universal standard. -There is no portable way of creating device special files, for instance. -So s6-hiercopy appears here instead of in -s6-portable-utils: -the platform where I needed that kind of tool is Linux.
You can't make it reliable because Unix's set of filesystem -management primitives is just too weak. It lacks a lot of atomic -operations, and filesystem transactions. As a result, s6-hiercopy -is a walking race condition and should absolutely not -be considered instant when used in a multitasking environment. -But then, cp -a shouldn't either.

- - - diff --git a/doc/upgrade.html b/doc/upgrade.html index 8878eb9..b9dcfeb 100644 --- a/doc/upgrade.html +++ b/doc/upgrade.html @@ -17,6 +17,13 @@

What has changed in s6-linux-utils

in 2.0.1.0

+ +

skalibs dependency bumped to 2.3.1.0
s6-hiercopy removed. (Moved to s6-portable-utils.)

in 2.0.0.1

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