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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:47:44 +0200
From: Nicolas Rachinsky <list@rachinsky.de>
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Subject: Re: cp -i -R
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On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 11:34:34AM +0200, Nicolas Rachinsky <list@rachinsky.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 05:35:03PM -0700, "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> wrote:
> > Then do "cp -i /kernel target" and instead of asking if you want
> > to clobber "target/kernel", it creates "target/nonexistent"!
> 
> I can reproduce this. 
> Even "cp /kernel target" and "cp -f /kernel target" show the same
> behaviour.

Sorry for replying to my own mail.
Doing a second search if there's an PR I found one, I missed the first
time I looked for it.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=25015

The audit trail says it's unclear wether the behaviour is correct or
not in the case of the "broken symlink target".

But I think the overwriting of an file without asking (with -i) when
the source is a symlink,fifo,... is not correct.

Nicolas

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