Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > POSIX.1-2001 says that link() should dereference symlinks. The Linux > kernel does not follow POSIX, so that calling cp with --no-dereference > and --link works as expected. However on non-Linux kernel, this does not > work as expected, the symlinks being dereferenced. This is even worse > with symlinks pointing to non-existing paths, where contrary to Linux, > cp fails in such cases.
Sorry, I can't quite understand your explanation. Can you please give a series of shell commands that illustrates the problems? Also, what does "cp --version" and "uname -a" say for you? Thanks. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
