tags 10020 wontfix severity 10020 wishlish close 10020 stop
(triaging old bugs) Hello, On 19/11/11 09:11 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
Maximiliano Curia wrote:
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A small test could be: $ rm -rf test; ls test; mkdir test; touch test/a test/b; cp -il test/a test/b ls: cannot access test: No such file or directory cp: overwrite `test/b'? y cp: cannot create link `test/b': File exists
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Thanks for the report. I agree that the current behavior is undesirable. How could we change it? (--link (-l) is not specified by POSIX, so we may) Here are some ways:
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However, this behavior has been with us for nearly two decades. Is it really worth changing now? Regardless, you can certainly use --force or --remove-destination to avoid the failure. Or use --backup to move any existing destination file aside. Unless someone steps forward to work on this, I suggest we simply close the issue as "not a big deal", given that there are plenty of ways to work around the problem.
Given the above, and with no further follow-ups in 6 years, I'm closing this bug as "wontfix". Discussion can continue by replying to this thread. regards, - assaf
