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diff --git a/tests/cp/link-preserve b/tests/cp/link-preserve
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+#!/bin/sh
+# ensure that hard-link structure between command line arguments is preserved
+
+if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then
+  set -x
+  cp --version
+fi
+
+. $srcdir/../envvar-check
+. $srcdir/../lang-default
+
+pwd=`pwd`
+tmp=lp.$$
+trap 'status=$?; cd $pwd; rm -rf $tmp && exit $status' 0
+trap '(exit $?); exit' 1 2 13 15
+
+framework_failure=0
+mkdir $tmp || framework_failure=1
+cd $tmp || framework_failure=1
+touch a || framework_failure=1
+ln a b || framework_failure=1
+mkdir c || framework_failure=1
+cp a b c || framework_failure=1
+test -f c/a || framework_failure=1
+test -f c/b || framework_failure=1
+
+if test $framework_failure = 1; then
+  echo 'failure in testing framework' 1>&2
+  (exit 1); exit
+fi
+
+fail=0
+
+a_inode=`ls -i c/a|sed 's,c/.*,,'`
+b_inode=`ls -i c/b|sed 's,c/.*,,'`
+
+test "$a_inode" = "$b_inode" || fail=1
+
+(exit $fail); exit