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Re: coreutils 5.95 on IRIX 5.3


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: coreutils 5.95 on IRIX 5.3
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 15:23:41 -0700
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Georg Schwarz <address@hidden> writes:

> lorenz 44% env VERBOSE=yes make TESTS=symlink-slash check
> ...
> + mkdir dir
> + ln -s dir symlink
> ...
> + cp -dR symlink/ s
> + ls -l s
> + set lrwxrwxrwx 1 schwarz user 3 Jun 17 19:58 s -> dir
> + test lrwxrwxrwx 1 schwarz user 3 Jun 17 19:58 s -> dir = total 0
> fail=1

Apparently coreutils isn't dereferencing that symlink correctly.  Can
you use GDB or some other debugger on the 'cp' command, and find out
why?  That cp command should create a directory, not a symlink.
Thanks.




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