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From: | Eric Blake |
Subject: | bug#17103: regression: cp -al doesn't copy symlinks, but tries to link to them (fail) |
Date: | Wed, 26 Mar 2014 14:37:29 -0600 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 |
On 03/26/2014 02:21 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: > As far as I know, you could never hardlink > to a symlink. only to a file. Wrong. Linux and Solaris have been able to hard link to symlinks for YEARS; and POSIX 2008 standardized that ability when it added the linkat() syscall. BSD has been behind in adding that ability, but is slowly getting there. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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