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cp: "cp -al" doesn't copy symlinks, tries to link to them

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>, Pádraig Brady
 <P <at> draigBrady.com>
Cc: 17103 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17103: regression: cp -al doesn't copy symlinks, but tries
 to link to them (fail)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 14:37:29 -0600

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On 03/26/2014 02:21 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:

>     As far as I know, you could never hardlink
> to a symlink.  only to a file.

Wrong.  Linux and Solaris have been able to hard link to symlinks for
YEARS; and POSIX 2008 standardized that ability when it added the
linkat() syscall.  BSD has been behind in adding that ability, but is
slowly getting there.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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