retitle 14618 cp: erroneous sparse copy command results in empty file
close 14618
stop
(triaging old bugs)
On 14/06/13 02:03 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 06/14/2013 12:35 PM, Koen De Wit wrote:
When trying to create a sparse copy of a file on a different filesystem you get an
"Invalid cross-device link" error, as expected. However, an empty file is
created instead of the sparse copy:
This was discussed previously:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2013-03/msg00056.html
Summary of that is that it may be best handled outside of cp.
With no further follow-ups in 5 years, I'm closing this bug.
-assaf
