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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)
{