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Re: Bad cp -a behaviour
From: |
Philip Rowlands |
Subject: |
Re: Bad cp -a behaviour |
Date: |
Sat, 7 Aug 2004 10:30:14 +0100 (BST) |
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Tim Waugh wrote:
>When using 'cp -a' to copy a directory structure, it has some
>unexpected behaviour. See the attached Makefile, which compares the
>behaviour between tar, cpio, and cp.
I might be missing something here; I can't reproduce this with a recent
cp (from FC2):
$ cp --version
cp (coreutils) 5.2.1
$ make -s cp
$
The source and dest appear identical, and strace shows cp unlinking
"1/d/2" and "1/d/3" as it goes.
>The original bug report is here:
>
>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=128874
"You are not authorized to access bug #128874"
Cheers,
Phil
- Bad cp -a behaviour, Tim Waugh, 2004/08/07
- Re: Bad cp -a behaviour, Andreas Schwab, 2004/08/07
- Re: Bad cp -a behaviour,
Philip Rowlands <=
- Re: Bad cp -a behaviour, Tim Waugh, 2004/08/10
- Re: Bad cp -a behaviour, Philip Rowlands, 2004/08/11
- Re: Bad cp -a behaviour, Tim Waugh, 2004/08/11
- Re: Bad cp -a behaviour, Philip Rowlands, 2004/08/11
- Re: Bad cp -a behaviour, Tim Waugh, 2004/08/11
- Re: Bad cp -a behaviour, Paul Eggert, 2004/08/11
- Re: Bad cp -a behaviour, Tim Waugh, 2004/08/12
- Re: Bad cp -a behaviour, Philip Rowlands, 2004/08/12
- Re: Bad cp -a behaviour, Andreas Schwab, 2004/08/12