From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 20:06:50 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (copy_internal): Don't skip test for same file if creating a hardlink
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-3_16r~36
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=184870f9bb4e7b9874f6dbc73afee525187f7758;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(copy_internal): Don't skip test for same file if creating a hardlink
from symlink over a non-symlink while making backups.
---

diff --git a/src/copy.c b/src/copy.c
index 1637221898..6c563b8438 100644
--- a/src/copy.c
+++ b/src/copy.c
@@ -437,8 +437,12 @@ copy_internal (const char *src_path, const char *dst_path,
 	  if (!same
 	      /* If we're making a backup, we'll detect the problem case in
 		 copy_reg because SRC_PATH will no longer exist.  Allowing
-		 the test to be deferred lets cp do some useful things.  */
-	      && x->backup_type == none
+		 the test to be deferred lets cp do some useful things.
+		 But when creating hardlinks and SRC_PATH is a symlink
+		 but DST_PATH is not we must test anyway.  */
+	      && (x->backup_type == none
+		  || (x->hard_link && S_ISLNK (src_sb.st_mode)
+		      && !S_ISLNK (dst_sb.st_mode)))
 	      && !x->dereference
 	      && (S_ISLNK (dst_sb.st_mode) || S_ISLNK (src_sb.st_mode)))
 	    {