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has caused the Debian Bug report #122860,
regarding busybox: cp -a breaks hard links
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Package: busybox
Version: 1:0.60.2-1
Severity: normal
busybox cp -a breaks hard links. It used to preserve them! It also
had one module that could perform the job of both "cp" and "mv".
What happened to "cp_mv.c"? It was codewise smaller than the current
version, and preserved hard links.
I realize that "(tar cf - .) | (cd dest && tar xf -)" will preserve
hard links, and that ancient Unix "cp" did not necessarily do so...
But both GNU and BSD "cp" do preserve hard links, so I would expect
busybox "cp" to also do so.
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux juniper 2.4.14-xfs-juniper #1 SMP Thu Dec 6 15:16:23 PST 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages busybox depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.4-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
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Hi,
Matt's patch has been merged upstream around six years ago, I'm therefore
closing this bug for all versions.
Thijs
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