Create dangling symlink: $ ln -s foo bar Attempt to write over it with cp: $ \cp -i /etc/issue bar cp: not writing through dangling symlink 'bar'
In the past, it would ask me if I wanted to replace bar. (As desired.) The error message makes me think that it is thinking I am writing "through" a dangling symlink to a directory. But that gets a different error message, which seems fine: $ \cp -i /etc/issue bar/baz cp: cannot create regular file 'bar/baz': No such file or directory coreutils 8.16, compiled from original source on CentOS 5.8 (libc 2.5, it seems). karl
