Re: 'cp: .snapshot/xxx and xxx are identical'

[Tim Waugh]

On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 01:36:20PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/cp.html>
> 
>     If source_file references the same file as dest_file, cp may write a
>     diagnostic message to standard error; it shall do nothing more with
>     source_file and shall go on to any remaining files.
> 
> (Not sure whether that allows exiting with non-zero status.)

Well, whether source_file references the same file as dest_file is not
quite clear.  They have the same inode, yes, but different content.

Tim.
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