On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Christian Harkort wrote:
> ...
> I just want to tell you, that the copy-command cp -r under my linux
> installation generally makes links instead of copies which I thought it
> ...
The following patch to fileutils-4.1 seems to fix
a long-standing `cp -r' bug.... without this, cp uses
lstat instead of stat.
----
Chris J. Bednar
Director, Distributed Computing Product Group
http://AdvancedDataSolutions.com/
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--- fileutils-4.1/src/cp.c.deref Thu Dec 27 23:46:29 2001
+++ fileutils-4.1/src/cp.c Thu Dec 27 23:51:26 2001
@@ -796,6 +796,7 @@
case 'r':
x.recursive = 1;
x.copy_as_regular = 1;
+ x.dereference = DEREF_ALWAYS;
break;
case 'R':
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