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<li> A Linux-based system with a standard C development environment </li>
<li> GNU make, version 4.0 or later </li>
<li> <a href="http://skarnet.org/software/skalibs/">skalibs</a> version
-2.1.0.0 or later </li>
+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. </li>
</ul>
<h3> Licensing </h3>
@@ -45,7 +47,7 @@
<h3> Download </h3>
<ul>
- <li> The current released version of s6-linux-utils is <a href="s6-linux-utils-2.0.0.1.tar.gz">2.0.0.1</a>. </li>
+ <li> The current released version of s6-linux-utils is <a href="s6-linux-utils-2.0.1.0.tar.gz">2.0.1.0</a>. </li>
<li> Alternatively, you can checkout a copy of the s6-linux-utils git repository:
<pre> git clone git://git.skarnet.org/s6-linux-utils </pre> </li>
</ul>
@@ -79,7 +81,6 @@ the previous versions of s6-linux-utils and the current one. </li>
<li><a href="s6-devd.html">The <tt>s6-devd</tt> program</a></li>
<li><a href="s6-freeramdisk.html">The <tt>s6-freeramdisk</tt> program</a></li>
<li><a href="s6-halt.html">The <tt>s6-halt</tt> program</a></li>
-<li><a href="s6-hiercopy.html">The <tt>s6-hiercopy</tt> program</a></li>
<li><a href="s6-hostname.html">The <tt>s6-hostname</tt> program</a></li>
<li><a href="s6-logwatch.html">The <tt>s6-logwatch</tt> program</a></li>
<li><a href="s6-mount.html">The <tt>s6-mount</tt> program</a></li>
diff --git a/doc/s6-hiercopy.html b/doc/s6-hiercopy.html
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-<html>
- <head>
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en" />
- <title>s6-linux-utils: the s6-hiercopy program</title>
- <meta name="Description" content="s6-linux-utils: the s6-hiercopy program" />
- <meta name="Keywords" content="s6 linux administration root utilities hiercopy cp -a" />
- <!-- <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://skarnet.org/default.css" /> -->
- </head>
-<body>
-
-<p>
-<a href="index.html">s6-linux-utils</a><br />
-<a href="http://skarnet.org/software/">Software</a><br />
-<a href="http://skarnet.org/">skarnet.org</a>
-</p>
-
-<h1> The <tt>s6-hiercopy</tt> program </h1>
-
-<p>
-<tt>s6-hiercopy</tt> copies a directory structure recursively.
-</p>
-
-<h2> Interface </h2>
-
-<pre>
- s6-hiercopy <em>source</em> <em>destination</em>
-</pre>
-
-<ul>
- <li> <tt>s6-hiercopy</tt> recursively copies <em>source</em> to
-<em>destination</em>, which is created if it doesn't exist.
-The permissions are preserved. The owner and group are preserved
-if the user is the superuser. </li>
- <li> It exits 0 on success and 111 on temporary failure. </li>
-</ul>
-
-<h2> Notes </h2>
-
-<p>
- Copying files and browsing through directories is one of Unix's
-weakest points, and <tt>s6-hiercopy</tt> 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 <tt>cp</tt> utility,
-portable and reliable and featureful and everything - while needing
-approximately a hundred times less resources than GNU <tt>cp</tt> does,
-of course. But I eventually dropped the idea: it's just impossible to
-design, much less write, such a utility.
-</p>
-
-<ul>
- <li> 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 <tt>s6-hiercopy</tt> appears here instead of in
-<a href="http://skarnet.org/software/s6-portable-utils/">s6-portable-utils</a>:
-the platform where I needed that kind of tool is Linux. </li>
- <li> 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, <tt>s6-hiercopy</tt>
-is a walking race condition and should <strong>absolutely not</strong>
-be considered instant when used in a multitasking environment.
-But then, <tt>cp -a</tt> shouldn't either. </li>
-</ul>
-
-</body>
-</html>
diff --git a/doc/upgrade.html b/doc/upgrade.html
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@@ -17,6 +17,13 @@
<h1> What has changed in s6-linux-utils </h1>
+<h2> in 2.0.1.0 </h2>
+
+<ul>
+ <li> skalibs dependency bumped to 2.3.1.0 </li>
+ <li> s6-hiercopy removed. (Moved to s6-portable-utils.) </li>
+</ul>
+
<h2> in 2.0.0.1 </h2>
<ul>