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bug#11427: cp 8.16 not writing through, writing over
From: |
Karl Berry |
Subject: |
bug#11427: cp 8.16 not writing through, writing over |
Date: |
Mon, 7 May 2012 13:19:02 GMT |
Create dangling symlink:
$ ln -s foo bar
Attempt to write over it with cp:
$ \cp -i /etc/issue bar
cp: not writing through dangling symlink 'bar'
In the past, it would ask me if I wanted to replace bar. (As desired.)
The error message makes me think that it is thinking I am writing
"through" a dangling symlink to a directory. But that gets
a different error message, which seems fine:
$ \cp -i /etc/issue bar/baz
cp: cannot create regular file 'bar/baz': No such file or directory
coreutils 8.16, compiled from original source on CentOS 5.8 (libc 2.5,
it seems).
karl
- bug#11427: cp 8.16 not writing through, writing over,
Karl Berry <=