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-rw-r--r--src/copy.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/copy.c b/src/copy.c
index 163722189..6c563b843 100644
--- a/src/copy.c
+++ b/src/copy.c
@@ -437,8 +437,12 @@ copy_internal (const char *src_path, const char *dst_path,
if (!same
/* If we're making a backup, we'll detect the problem case in
copy_reg because SRC_PATH will no longer exist. Allowing
- the test to be deferred lets cp do some useful things. */
- && x->backup_type == none
+ the test to be deferred lets cp do some useful things.
+ But when creating hardlinks and SRC_PATH is a symlink
+ but DST_PATH is not we must test anyway. */
+ && (x->backup_type == none
+ || (x->hard_link && S_ISLNK (src_sb.st_mode)
+ && !S_ISLNK (dst_sb.st_mode)))
&& !x->dereference
&& (S_ISLNK (dst_sb.st_mode) || S_ISLNK (src_sb.st_mode)))
{