bug#15173: [cp] --link overrides dereference settings

[Jim Meyering]

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Bernhard Voelker
<address@hidden> wrote:
> [I was hoping that someone with more coreutils history
>  was jumping in here - adding Jim for that matter.]

Hi Berny,
I don't have enough context (12 years is a long time) yet, but would guess that
the current behavior was driven by an attempt to be consistent with one of the
*BSD implementations.  Does the current behavior conflict with POSIX or
disagree with how other implementations work?  I haven't been
following this thread closely.

Jim