From c1b6f9458a55cdc1143a1ae3959c577004ff8e3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 15:07:20 +0200 Subject: "touch E; mkfifo F; cp -fR F E" no longer fails due to existing E * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Revert change of 2005-03-01, 4303f0454592421eea48be87777d32a49e1d5e5b Prompted by Michael Stone, who pointed me to an old bug report from Ian Jackson: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/7504 * tests/cp/special-f: New file. Test for the above. * tests/cp/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add special-f. * NEWS: mention this bug fix. --- tests/cp/special-f | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+) create mode 100755 tests/cp/special-f (limited to 'tests/cp/special-f') diff --git a/tests/cp/special-f b/tests/cp/special-f new file mode 100755 index 000000000..ebcbf8ea3 --- /dev/null +++ b/tests/cp/special-f @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +#!/bin/sh +# Ensure that "cp -Rf fifo E" unlinks E and retries. +# Up until coreutils-6.10.171, it would not. + +# Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + +# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify +# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or +# (at your option) any later version. + +# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +# GNU General Public License for more details. + +# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +# along with this program. If not, see . + +if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then + set -x + cp --version +fi + +. $srcdir/../envvar-check +. $srcdir/../lang-default +. $srcdir/../test-lib.sh + +mkfifo fifo || + skip_test_ "fifos not supported" +touch e || framework-failure + +fail=0 + +# Without -f, expect it to fail. +cp -R fifo e || fail=1 + +# With -f, it must succeed. +cp -Rf fifo e || fail=1 +test -p fifo || fail=1 + +(exit $fail); exit $fail -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf