Subject: Re: bug#11427: cp 8.16 not writing through, writing over

From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 21:49:03 +0200

tags 11427 + notabug
close 11427
thanks

Jim Meyering wrote:
...
> [quick answer: set POSIXLY_CORRECT]
>
> That behavior change dates back to 2007.
> Here's the NEWS snippet:
>
>
>     * Noteworthy changes in release 6.9.90 (2007-12-01) [beta]
>       ...
>     ** Changes in behavior
>
>       cp, by default, refuses to copy through a dangling destination symlink
>       Set POSIXLY_CORRECT if you require the old, risk-prone behavior.
>
>
> There's more detail here:
>
>   http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=2bdc48121916ab0d7bb7d
>
> and even more on the mailing list just before I made that change.

Karl mentioned off-list that this can be closed.