[cs631apue] Some details related to the HW2

[Jan Schaumann]

Sadia Akhter <sakhter at stevens.edu> wrote:
> So, our program should support copying only regular files, not other
> types of files (for example, directory, special files, link etc). Is
> it correct?

Correct, being able to copy a regular file is a requirement.

For other types of files, you may error out.  However, your program
must fail explicitly and gracefully if it encounters a situation it
can't handle.

-Jan