#!/bin/sh # Ensure that cp works as documented, when the destination is a dangling symlink # Copyright (C) 2007-2010 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/test-lib.sh ln -s no-such dangle || framework_failure echo hi > f || framework_failure echo hi > exp || framework_failure echo "cp: not writing through dangling symlink \`dangle'" \ > exp-err || framework_failure # Starting with 6.9.90, this usage fails, by default: cp f dangle > err 2>&1 && fail=1 compare err exp-err || fail=1 test -f no-such && fail=1 # But you can set POSIXLY_CORRECT to get the historical behavior. env POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 cp f dangle > out 2>&1 || fail=1 cat no-such >> out || fail=1 compare out exp || fail=1 Exit $fail