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cp: cannot backup `x/.': Device or resource busy


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: cp: cannot backup `x/.': Device or resource busy
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:31:58 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

$ cp --version
cp (GNU coreutils) 6.0
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.
$ mkdir x y
$ cp -ab x/. y
cp: cannot backup `y/.': Device or resource busy

Andreas.

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