[SAGA-RG] Some more questions

[Andre Merzky]

Cool.  I clarify that in the spec

Cheers, Andre.


Quoting [Ceriel Jacobs] (Oct 31 2007):
> From: Ceriel Jacobs <ceriel at cs.vu.nl>
> To: Andre Merzky <andre at merzky.net>
> CC: Hartmut Kaiser <hkaiser at cct.lsu.edu>, 'Roelof Kemp' <rkemp at cs.vu.nl>,
> 	saga-rg at ogf.org
> Subject: Re: [SAGA-RG] Some more questions
> 
> 'Andre Merzky' wrote:
> >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).
> 
> OK, I thought about this now. Here is My opinion:
> I agree with Hartmut: throw an AlreadyExists exception, with a
> clarifying message, like "cannot overwrite non-directory `b' with directory 
> `a'".
> I agree that deleting the file is a bad idea. If the user wants this,
> he/she should remove the file first.
> 
> Ceriel
> 



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