Re: posix & links

[Aurelien Jarno]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> Michael Stone <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Have you seen this bug report?
> >
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=329451
>
> Yes.
> I've just dealt with it on the upstream trunk:
>
> 2006-06-03  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>
>
>         Make `cp --link --no-dereference' work also on systems where the
>         link system call cannot create a hard link to a symbolic link.
>         * src/copy.c (copy_internal) [LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINKS]: Don't use
>         the link syscall on a symlink when it would do the wrong thing.
>         Based on the patch by Aurelien Jarno: <http://bugs.debian.org/329451>
>         * tests/cp/link-no-deref: New file/test for the above.
>         * tests/cp/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add link-no-deref.
>         * NEWS: Mention the change (doesn't affect Linux).

I have just test the CVS version, and it works well on GNU/kFreeBSD. 
Thanks a lot!

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