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Diffstat (limited to 'src/copy.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/copy.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/copy.c b/src/copy.c index fcb4854cc..91ae106f5 100644 --- a/src/copy.c +++ b/src/copy.c @@ -1556,11 +1556,14 @@ copy_internal (const char *src_path, const char *dst_path, un_backup: - /* We didn't create the destination. - Remove the entry associating the source dev/ino with the + /* We have failed to create the destination file. + If we've just added a dev/ino entry via the remember_copied + call above (i.e., unless we've just failed to create a hard link), + remove the entry associating the source dev/ino with the destination file name, so we don't try to `preserve' a link to a file we didn't create. */ - forget_created (src_sb.st_ino, src_sb.st_dev); + if (earlier_file == NULL) + forget_created (src_sb.st_ino, src_sb.st_dev); if (dst_backup) { |