Thanks for the report.
Would you please see if you can reproduce the failure using the
version of `cp' from the latest test release?
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/fileutils-4.0r.tar.gz
Brandon Metcalf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| gcp seems to have a bug when copying empty directories from an mvfs. mvfs
| is the filesystem used with Rational's ClearCase. This occurs on hpux
| and aix. Doesn't occur on solaris. Here are the details.
|
| fileutils v3.16
| aix 4.2.1.0
| hpux 10.20
|
|
| hendrix (bmetcalf_91) nms $ uname -a
| HP-UX hendrix B.10.20 A 9000/785 2011029407 two-user license
| hendrix (bmetcalf_91) nms $ ls -ld om
| drwxrwxr-x 2 cmvobadm engineer 0 May 1 13:58 om/
| hendrix (bmetcalf_91) nms $ ls -l om
| total 0
| hendrix (bmetcalf_91) nms $ gcp -av om ~/tmp
| om -> /bnw/home/bmetcalf/tmp/om
| Memory fault(coredump)
|
|
| rhiannon (bmetcalf_91) nms $ uname -a
| AIX rhiannon 2 4 000115CB4C00
| rhiannon (bmetcalf_91) nms $ gcp -av om ~/tmp
| om -> /bnw/home/bmetcalf/tmp/om
| gcp: om: A system call received a parameter that is not valid.
|
|
| In both cases, the target directory gets created, but gcp dumps core in
| one case and exits with a non-zero status in both cases. This behavior
| does not occur on solaris 2.6.
|
| Brandon
