Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:47:44 +0200 From: Nicolas Rachinsky <list@rachinsky.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cp -i -R Message-ID: <20011010114744.B41891@pc5.abc> In-Reply-To: <20011010113434.A41891@pc5.abc> References: <20011009161204.A22196@pc5.abc> <3.0.5.32.20011009095525.031a30f0@mail.sage-american.com> <20011009172052.A37340@pc5.abc> <t8het8fi2w.et8@localhost.localdomain> <20011010113434.A41891@pc5.abc>
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On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 11:34:34AM +0200, Nicolas Rachinsky <list@rachinsky.de> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 05:35:03PM -0700, "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> wrote: > > Then do "cp -i /kernel target" and instead of asking if you want > > to clobber "target/kernel", it creates "target/nonexistent"! > > I can reproduce this. > Even "cp /kernel target" and "cp -f /kernel target" show the same > behaviour. Sorry for replying to my own mail. Doing a second search if there's an PR I found one, I missed the first time I looked for it. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=25015 The audit trail says it's unclear wether the behaviour is correct or not in the case of the "broken symlink target". But I think the overwriting of an file without asking (with -i) when the source is a symlink,fifo,... is not correct. Nicolas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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