Re: [PATCH] cp --no-derefence --link assumes a Linux kernel

[Paul Eggert]

Aurelien Jarno <address@hidden> writes:

> POSIX.1-2001 says that link() should dereference symlinks. The Linux
> kernel does not follow POSIX, so that calling cp with --no-dereference
> and --link works as expected. However on non-Linux kernel, this does not
> work as expected, the symlinks being dereferenced. This is even worse
> with symlinks pointing to non-existing paths, where contrary to Linux,
> cp fails in such cases.

Sorry, I can't quite understand your explanation.  Can you please give
a series of shell commands that illustrates the problems?

Also, what does "cp --version" and "uname -a" say for you?

Thanks.