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bug#17103: regression: cp -al doesn't copy symlinks, but tries to link t
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Eric Blake |
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bug#17103: regression: cp -al doesn't copy symlinks, but tries to link to them (fail) |
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Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:05:56 -0600 |
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On 03/26/2014 02:57 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
> Furthermore, the man page says "-l: hard link files instead
> of copying'. AFAIK, symlinks are not files any more
> than directories (or is that wrong too and they are now
> considered to be 'files'?
Per the POSIX definition, symlinks, directories, FIFOS, and all other
special files are still "files" - the term "file" includes not only
"regular files" but all other named entities in the file system.
Directories are the only special file type that cannot generally be
hardlinked according to POSIX rules (and even then, POSIX allows the
Solaris behavior where the superuser CAN hardlink directories, with the
caveat that doing so causes weird behaviors).
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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- bug#17103: regression: cp -al doesn't copy symlinks, but tries to link to them (fail), Linda Walsh, 2014/03/26
- bug#17103: regression: cp -al doesn't copy symlinks, but tries to link to them (fail), Pádraig Brady, 2014/03/26
- bug#17103: regression: cp -al doesn't copy symlinks, but tries to link to them (fail), Pádraig Brady, 2014/03/26
- bug#17103: regression: cp -al doesn't copy symlinks, but tries to link to them (fail), Linda Walsh, 2014/03/26
- bug#17103: regression: cp -al doesn't copy symlinks, but tries to link to them (fail), Kees Cook, 2014/03/27
- bug#17103: regression: cp -al doesn't copy symlinks, but tries to link to them (fail), Linda Walsh, 2014/03/27
- bug#17103: regression: cp -al doesn't copy symlinks, but tries to link to them (fail), Linda Walsh, 2014/03/27
- bug#17103: regression: cp -al doesn't copy symlinks, but tries to link to them (fail), Kees Cook, 2014/03/28
- bug#17103: regression: cp -al doesn't copy symlinks, but tries to link to them (fail), Linda Walsh, 2014/03/28
bug#17103: regression: cp -al doesn't copy symlinks, but tries to link to them (fail), Paul Eggert, 2014/03/26