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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#17103: regression: cp -al doesn't copy symlinks, but tries to link to them (fail) |
Date: | Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:48:08 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 |
Linda Walsh wrote:
Any idea how this managed to be broken?
My guess is that it's SELinux. Try doing the following: 1. Create 'dir' as before. 2. As the user, run the following shell commands: LC_ALL=C export LC_ALL ln dir/a/symfile dir/b Assuming this fails, look at the output of: strace ln dir/a/symfile dir/b My guess is that you'll see something like this:linkat(AT_FDCWD, "dir/a/symfile", AT_FDCWD, "dir/b/symfile", 0) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)
If so, the problem would appear to be in SELinux itself.
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