GNU bug report logs - #23120
cp with --dereference (-L) and --link (-l) or --symbolic-link (-s)

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Petr Skočík <pskocik <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 13:55:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Merged with 15173

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #13 received at control <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: 23120 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23120: cp with --dereference (-L) and --link (-l) or
 --symbolic-link (-s)
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2018 16:08:49 -0600

unarchive 15173
merge 23120 15173
tags  23120 fixed
close  23120
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 2016-03-26 11:26 a.m., Pádraig Brady wrote:
> 
> On 26/03/16 10:36, Petr Skočík wrote:
>>
>> I'm on a system with cp 8.21, and when I do `cp -Ll` or `cp -Ls` on a
>> symlink, it hardlinks (-Ll) or symlinks (-Ls) the symlink instead of the
>> target of the symlink.
>>
> 
> The -Ll hardlink case was fixed in 8.22 with a bit of
> an epic discussion in http://bugs.gnu.org/15173
> 
> The -Ls symlink case currently just symlinks the source symlink.

With no further comments in 2 years, I'm closing this bug.

-assaf
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