Thanks for the report and patch! I've applied it and added a test case. Chris Bednar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Christian Harkort wrote: > > ... > > I just want to tell you, that the copy-command cp -r under my linux > > installation generally makes links instead of copies which I thought it > > ... > > The following patch to fileutils-4.1 seems to fix > a long-standing `cp -r' bug.... without this, cp uses > lstat instead of stat. ... > --- fileutils-4.1/src/cp.c.deref Thu Dec 27 23:46:29 2001 > +++ fileutils-4.1/src/cp.c Thu Dec 27 23:51:26 2001 > @@ -796,6 +796,7 @@ > case 'r': > x.recursive = 1; > x.copy_as_regular = 1; > + x.dereference = DEREF_ALWAYS; > break; > > case 'R':
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