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| From: | Assaf Gordon |
| Subject: | bug#23120: cp with --dereference (-L) and --link (-l) or --symbolic-link (-s) |
| Date: | Sat, 27 Oct 2018 16:08:49 -0600 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 |
unarchive 15173 merge 23120 15173 tags 23120 fixed close 23120 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2016-03-26 11:26 a.m., Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 26/03/16 10:36, Petr Skočík wrote:I'm on a system with cp 8.21, and when I do `cp -Ll` or `cp -Ls` on a symlink, it hardlinks (-Ll) or symlinks (-Ls) the symlink instead of the target of the symlink.The -Ll hardlink case was fixed in 8.22 with a bit of an epic discussion in http://bugs.gnu.org/15173 The -Ls symlink case currently just symlinks the source symlink.
With no further comments in 2 years, I'm closing this bug. -assaf
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