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cp -rl dir dir in 7.1 not so great


From: Mikael Magnusson
Subject: cp -rl dir dir in 7.1 not so great
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:03:02 +0100

In my old 6.x something, cp would just say
  cp: cannot copy a directory, `dir', into itself, `dir/dir'
(it would still do it, but only once)
In 7.1 I get a result like this:

% timeout 1 cp -rl dir dir
% ls -R dir|wc -l
1063

Without the -l it still behaves properly.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson

removed directory: `dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir'
removed directory: `dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir'
removed directory: `dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir'
removed directory: `dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir'
removed directory: `dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir'
removed directory: `dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir'
removed directory: `dir/dir/dir/dir/dir/dir'
removed directory: `dir/dir/dir/dir/dir'
removed directory: `dir/dir/dir/dir'
removed directory: `dir/dir/dir'
removed directory: `dir/dir'
removed directory: `dir'




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