bug#8419: cp -au : New hard links in source becomes new files at destination when using cp -au

[Pádraig Brady]

On 25/07/11 12:42, Jim Meyering wrote:
> address@hidden wrote:
>> I have tried to use the command cp combining the -a and the -u options.
>> I had to stop the copying process midways and restarted it again, and to my
>> suprice the diskusage at the destination was 10 -20 % larger than the
>> diskusage at the source and my disks ran full even though the destination
>> disks was the same size as the source disks.
> ...
> 
> Thank you for a fine bug report.
> That is indeed a bug, and it affects the latest release, coreutils-8.12.
> I confirmed that it afflicts fileutils-3.16 too, so this bug has probably
> been present since the initial implementation.
> 
> Here's the fix I expect to push:

That looks good.
Should we fold the attached patch in too?
It refactors out a create_hard_link() function,
so we wouldn't be adding any new labels.

cheers,
Pádraig.

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