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cp could be more precise than "Not a directory"

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From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>
Cc: 22584 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Subject: bug#22584: cp could be more precise than "Not a directory"
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 20:15:35 -0500

> On Feb 9, 2016, at 02:29, Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de> wrote:
[...]
> 
> After stat() has detected that the target does not exist, cp simply
> tries to open() it - and while it has a trailing slash, the kernel
> returns EISDIR:

Thank you, Bernhard, for pointing the additional open/EISDIR - I missed that part.
That better explains the code in src/copy.c:1150 . 

-assaf

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