[bug #62964] --on-clobber does not respect sym-linked files

[anonymous]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62964>

                 Summary: --on-clobber does not respect sym-linked files
                 Project: GNU Wget
               Submitter: None
               Submitted: Sat 27 Aug 2022 02:07:23 AM UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Paul Wratt
        Originator Email: paul.wratt@gmail.com
             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: 1.20
         Discussion Lock: Any
        Operating System: None
         Reproducibility: Every Time
           Fixed Release: None
         Planned Release: None
              Regression: None
           Work Required: None
          Patch Included: None


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Follow-up Comments:


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Date: Sat 27 Aug 2022 02:07:23 AM UTC By: Anonymous
if a file is present on the my system, but is a sym-linked file, the file will
get over-written

I manually downloaded a iso image last night,, but I want the rest of that
directory tree which contains small files less than 1Mb, so I wait for wget to
build the tree structure and ^C it as soon as it hits that file (its the 1st
one after 'index.html' - I delete that as well), rm the new partial download,
and sym-link the iso file

Then I restart wget with the same command line, and _zap_ there goes the file
contents.

1) without --no-clobber it should always create .1/.2/etc names, it does not
(https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60244)

2) with --no-clobber it should never create .1/.2/etc names
(https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?34413)

3) with --no-clobber it especially should not over-write anything, at all,
ever









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