On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 09:53:34PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
>> If not, I see no problem in closing this bug.
>
> Okay. Because this is not something that I think should be different
> in Debian than in the upstream (not as a distro specific patch) I am
> going to close the bug.
No worries.
> As
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 10:34:07AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
>> I don't think this is a bug, but I don't understand why only one
>> (rather than both or none) of the following cp invocations fail:
>>
>> $ cp -bf x x
>> $ cp -bf x ./
>> cp: `x' and `./x' are the same file
>
> A comment in
Trent W. Buck wrote:
> I don't think this is a bug, but I don't understand why only one
> (rather than both or none) of the following cp invocations fail:
> ...
> $ cp -bf x x
> $ ls
> x x.~1~
> $ cp -bf x ./
> cp: `x' and `./x' are the same file
A comment in the code probably
Package: coreutils
Version: 5.97-5.4
Severity: wishlist
File: /bin/cp
I don't think this is a bug, but I don't understand why only one
(rather than both or none) of the following cp invocations fail:
$ cd `mktemp -d`
$ touch x
$ cp -bf x x
$ ls
x x.~1~
$ cp -bf x ./
c
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