Subject: Re: bug#14618: Erroneous sparse copy command results in empty file

From: Assaf Gordon <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 10:50:24 -0600

retitle 14618 cp: erroneous sparse copy command results in empty file
close 14618
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 14/06/13 02:03 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 06/14/2013 12:35 PM, Koen De Wit wrote:
>> When trying to create a sparse copy of a file on a different filesystem you get an "Invalid cross-device link" error, as expected. However, an empty file is created instead of the sparse copy:
> 
> This was discussed previously:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2013-03/msg00056.html
> Summary of that is that it may be best handled outside of cp.

With no further follow-ups in 5 years, I'm closing this bug.

-assaf