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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2006-08-27 19:41:04 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2006-08-27 19:41:04 +0000 |
| commit | 520a954d7e8823a4c385c662b3b571ae53f125ea (patch) | |
| tree | d62505143c782bebd736615f4d44a27db01e0694 /src | |
| parent | 07446625096ddeb9246fb36572d5fe644f56cd1f (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-520a954d7e8823a4c385c662b3b571ae53f125ea.tar.xz | |
* src/copy.c (copy_internal): Don't make a backup if the last
component of the source name is "." or "..".
Reported by Andreas Schwab in https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?17540.
* tests/cp/src-base-dot: New file. Test for the above fix.
* tests/cp/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add src-base-dot.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/copy.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/copy.c b/src/copy.c index 5b69e8ad2..c8d09b4ee 100644 --- a/src/copy.c +++ b/src/copy.c @@ -1185,7 +1185,10 @@ copy_internal (char const *src_name, char const *dst_name, } } - if (x->backup_type != no_backups) + if (x->backup_type != no_backups + /* Don't try to back up a destination if the last + component of src_name is "." or "..". */ + && ! dot_or_dotdot (last_component (src_name))) { char *tmp_backup = find_backup_file_name (dst_name, x->backup_type); |