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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 1999-11-11 13:19:36 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 1999-11-11 13:19:36 +0000 |
| commit | 1b6c640f464fe3bf8b2923d5be4e6d30460794f5 (patch) | |
| tree | e41fd72aaef5572368ba17bb183227834d694384 | |
| parent | 101ae141c6174f4971a1533ef2eb298ebb1de44a (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-1b6c640f464fe3bf8b2923d5be4e6d30460794f5.tar.xz | |
(copy_internal): Treat src and dest as the `same' in
`mv src symlink-to-src' when src and dest are on different partitions.
Otherwise, that `mv' command would silently remove `src'.
Reported by Michael Stone.
| -rw-r--r-- | src/copy.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/copy.c b/src/copy.c index e06acc14a..9d8c0c070 100644 --- a/src/copy.c +++ b/src/copy.c @@ -429,9 +429,11 @@ copy_internal (const char *src_path, const char *dst_path, && ! x->force /* Allow them to be the same (and don't set `same') if - we're in move mode and the target is a symlink. */ + we're in move mode and the target is a symlink + on the same partition. */ && !(move_mode - && S_ISLNK (dst_sb.st_mode)) + && S_ISLNK (dst_sb.st_mode) + && src_sb.st_dev == dst_sb.st_dev) /* If we're making a backup, we'll detect the problem case in copy_reg because SRC_PATH will no longer exist. Allowing |