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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 1999-05-23 14:52:32 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 1999-05-23 14:52:32 +0000 |
| commit | 0868b5794a6d6579509b4a8e5305328ccb4400ce (patch) | |
| tree | 720c8dc0989879e39450c8d9c01ccb1d20dc1646 | |
| parent | 46945ad760173515e01c2ca718fc68a4c7e2345b (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-0868b5794a6d6579509b4a8e5305328ccb4400ce.tar.xz | |
(copy_internal): Make it so `mv -f FILE FILE' does not remove FILE.
Based on a patch from Chris Yeo.
| -rw-r--r-- | src/copy.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/copy.c b/src/copy.c index fe68d49f4..9246aa07e 100644 --- a/src/copy.c +++ b/src/copy.c @@ -568,6 +568,13 @@ copy_internal (const char *src_path, const char *dst_path, } else { + if (SAME_INODE (src_sb, dst_sb)) + { + error (0, 0, _("`%s' and `%s' are the same file"), + src_path, dst_path); + return 1; + } + if (unlink (dst_path) && errno != ENOENT) { error (0, errno, _("cannot remove old link to `%s'"), |