Re: Bad cp -a behaviour

[Philip Rowlands]

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Tim Waugh wrote:

>When using 'cp -a' to copy a directory structure, it has some
>unexpected behaviour.  See the attached Makefile, which compares the
>behaviour between tar, cpio, and cp.

I might be missing something here; I can't reproduce this with a recent
cp (from FC2):

$ cp --version
cp (coreutils) 5.2.1
$ make -s cp
$

The source and dest appear identical, and strace shows cp unlinking
"1/d/2" and "1/d/3" as it goes.

>The original bug report is here:
>
>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=128874

"You are not authorized to access bug #128874"


Cheers,
Phil