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"touch E; mkfifo F; cp -fR F E" no longer fails due to existing E
authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Wed, 2 Apr 2008 13:07:20 +0000 (15:07 +0200)
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Wed, 2 Apr 2008 16:23:04 +0000 (18:23 +0200)
commitc1b6f9458a55cdc1143a1ae3959c577004ff8e3f
treeb0327fc56e3bbfa959e34b65576895f97f121428
parentf3653f0d204a07d80444c261126360901b849e37
"touch E; mkfifo F; cp -fR F E" no longer fails due to existing E

* src/copy.c (copy_internal): Revert change of 2005-03-01,
4303f0454592421eea48be87777d32a49e1d5e5b
Prompted by Michael Stone, who pointed me to an old bug report from
Ian Jackson: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/7504
* tests/cp/special-f: New file.  Test for the above.
* tests/cp/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add special-f.
* NEWS: mention this bug fix.
NEWS
src/copy.c
tests/cp/Makefile.am
tests/cp/special-f [new file with mode: 0755]