[cs631apue] Some details related to the HW2

Sadia Akhter sakhter at stevens.edu
Thu Sep 18 19:10:43 EDT 2014


So, our program should support copying only regular files, not other types of files (for example, directory, special files, link etc). Is it correct?


On Sep 17, 2014, at 10:48 PM, Jan Schaumann <jschauma at stevens.edu> wrote:

> Liang Luo <lluo1 at stevens.edu> wrote:
>> tcp source_arg1 target_arg2
>> 
>> 1. Could the source be a folder(directory)?
> 
> It's possible that the first argument given to your program is a
> directory.  Your program does not, however, support copying a directory.
> 
>> 2. Should we implement "tcp" that can copy files from one machine to
>> another, meaning network-capable?
> 
> No, that is far beyond the scope of this assignment.
> 
> -Jan
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