GNU bug report logs - #15173
[cp] --link overrides dereference settings

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Gian Piero Carrubba <gpiero <at> rm-rf.it>

Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 21:55:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Merged with 23120

Done: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>

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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>
Cc: Gian Piero Carrubba <gpiero <at> rm-rf.it>, Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>, Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigbrady.com>, 15173 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15173: [cp] --link overrides dereference settings
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 07:25:25 -0800

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Bernhard Voelker
<mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de> wrote:
> [I was hoping that someone with more coreutils history
>  was jumping in here - adding Jim for that matter.]

Hi Berny,
I don't have enough context (12 years is a long time) yet, but would guess that
the current behavior was driven by an attempt to be consistent with one of the
*BSD implementations.  Does the current behavior conflict with POSIX or
disagree with how other implementations work?  I haven't been
following this thread closely.

Jim
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