Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2022 13:30:08 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 235438] cp -R command not working properly Message-ID: <bug-235438-227-ZlxoGqiZZG@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-235438-227@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235438 --- Comment #3 from commit-hook@FreeBSD.org --- A commit in branch stable/13 references this bug: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=5237a02ba86b5957d10d87148bbc0efb3f2f6f82 commit 5237a02ba86b5957d10d87148bbc0efb3f2f6f82 Author: Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2022-01-27 18:02:17 +0000 Commit: Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2022-04-24 03:51:13 +0000 cp: fix some cases with infinite recursion As noted in the PR, cp -R has some surprising behavior. Typically, when you `cp -R foo bar` where both foo and bar exist, foo is cleanly copied to foo/bar. When you `cp -R foo foo` (where foo clearly exists), cp(1) goes a little off the rails as it creates foo/foo, then discovers that and creates foo/foo/foo, so on and so forth, until it eventually fails. POSIX doesn't seem to disallow this behavior, but it isn't very useful. GNU cp(1) will detect the recursion and squash it, but emit a message in the process that it has done so. This change seemingly follows the GNU behavior, but it currently doesn't warn about the situation -- the author feels that the final product is about what one might expect from doing this and thus, doesn't need a warning. The author doesn't feel strongly about this. PR: 235438 Reviewed by: bapt Sponsored by: Klara, Inc. (cherry picked from commit 848263aad129c8f9de75b58a5ab9a010611b75ac) bin/cp/cp.c | 75 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- bin/cp/tests/cp_test.sh | 77 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 147 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.home | help
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