[SAGA-RG] Some more questions

['Andre Merzky']

Hi, 

Quoting [Hartmut Kaiser] (Oct 30 2007):
>  
> Andre,
>  
> > > 2. What is supposed to happen when the source is a directory, the
> > >    recursive flag is set, and the target is a file? I assume remove
> > >    target, create target dir, and copy? And if overwrite flag is
> > >    not set, throw AlreadyExists?
> > 
> > Uhm, tough one!  Unix shell would say:
> > 
> >   koks merzky /tmp : mkdir a
> >   koks merzky /tmp : touch a/a b
> >   koks merzky /tmp : cp -Rf a b
> >   cp: cannot overwrite non-directory `b' with directory `a'
> > 
> > We don't have an exception for this.  So, yes, I would concur 
> > with your interpretation: the target file should get removed, 
> > and a target dir with the same name should get created.
> 
> Deleting a file in the case the user wanted to delete a directory is bad,
> IMHO. I'ld suggest to throw an AlreadyExists exeption.

It would be nice to get another opinion to break the tie (I
myself am not sure which way is better).

Thanks, Andre.


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