Forwarding a replyI only received in private. Please keep the Cc: on any followups. From: subratkumar To: era eriksson Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 17:04 On Thursday 30 August 2012 01:38 PM, era eriksson wrote: I stumbled across your recent bug report for cp [1]http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=10900 and I was wondering if you could follow up with a bit of additional information. What did you expect to happen, and what should be fixed in order for cp to behave like you expect? Thanks for your bug report! I am but a mere bystander, but I appreciate your effort. /* era */ I expected : 1.cp -r dir1 dir1 (should not copy dir1 inside dir1) ,it was coming with an erro r message but it was copying inside dir1 ,please check it inside dir1. 2.cp -s file1 ../dir1/ (symlinking out side the current directory should be allo wed) but it came with error symlink restricted to current directory. Please have a look. Let me know about these. -- ------------------------------------------------ Thanks & regards Subrat Kumar Ojha PMG, Global Edge Software Ltd. Mob - +91 - 9620262307 References 1. http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=10900