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#55910
cp error
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Reported by: pk <pkoroau <at> gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2022 16:07:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
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Package: coreutils
- Boot arch linux live cd 2022.06. It has coreutils 9.1-1.
- mkfs.btrfs /dev/vda
- mount /dev/vda /mnt
- cp -ax / /mnt
cp: cannot create directory '/mnt/': No such file or directory
If relevant: strace says that newfstatat and mkdirat have been given
"" as pathname and return ENOENT.
Instead, the exact same steps work on arch linux 2022.03, which has
coreutils 9.0-2. Note that -x should prevent trying to copy /mnt under
itself; on 2022.03, there is a proper error message for cp -a / /mnt
without -x.
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