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| -rw-r--r-- | src/copy.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/copy.c b/src/copy.c index 607e69840..d5e84f36c 100644 --- a/src/copy.c +++ b/src/copy.c @@ -426,8 +426,8 @@ close_src_desc: work to do and should return successfully, right away. Set *UNLINK_SRC if we've determined that the caller wants to do - `rename (a, b)' where `a' and `b' are hard links to the same file. - In that case, the caller should try to unlink `a' and then return + `rename (a, b)' where `a' and `b' are distinct hard links to the same + file. In that case, the caller should try to unlink `a' and then return successfully. Ideally, we wouldn't have to do that, and we'd be able to rely on rename to remove the source file. However, POSIX mistakenly requires that such a rename call do *nothing* and return @@ -561,7 +561,9 @@ same_file_ok (const char *src_path, const struct stat *src_sb, if (S_ISLNK (dst_sb_link->st_mode)) return 1; - if (same_link && !same_name (src_path, dst_path)) + if (same_link + && 1 < dst_sb_link->st_nlink + && ! same_name (src_path, dst_path)) { if (x->move_mode) { |