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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2004-08-11 17:19:25 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2004-08-11 17:19:25 +0000 |
| commit | 367719ba5f1dbd5e2f7fa2466c441f23f66a7c9e (patch) | |
| tree | 966bc50a01e693f4b80210683c5ba2ce3afede63 /src | |
| parent | eb1d2a52ddad0502e1dd8eae3a9d3814f54ba006 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-367719ba5f1dbd5e2f7fa2466c441f23f66a7c9e.tar.xz | |
(copy_internal): When preserving links, unlink
a destination with link count greater than one. This is so
that commands like "cp -a" don't get confused when copying into
a destination that already contains many hard links.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/copy.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/copy.c b/src/copy.c index 125303557..61c74c383 100644 --- a/src/copy.c +++ b/src/copy.c @@ -1079,6 +1079,7 @@ copy_internal (const char *src_path, const char *dst_path, } else if (! S_ISDIR (dst_sb.st_mode) && (x->unlink_dest_before_opening + || (x->preserve_links && 1 < dst_sb.st_nlink) || (x->dereference == DEREF_NEVER && ! S_ISREG (src_sb.st_mode)))) { |