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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>1996-02-16 05:15:26 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>1996-02-16 05:15:26 +0000
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+Thu Feb 15 23:08:41 1996 Jim Meyering (meyering@na-net.ornl.gov)
+
+ * cp.c (copy): Detect (and fail) when creating backup file would
+ destroy the source file. Before, running the commands
+ cd /tmp; rm -f a a~; : > a; echo A > a~; cp -b -V simple a~ a
+ would leave two zero-length files: a and a~.
+ Reported by Martin C. Martin <mcm@cs.cmu.edu>.
+
Mon Feb 12 23:23:25 1996 Jim Meyering (meyering@na-net.ornl.gov)
* configure.in (LIBOBJS): Split assignment into two statements to