From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 15:15:02 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (copy_internal): Don't make `mv foo symlink-to-foo' fail.
X-Git-Tag: SH-UTILS-1_16h~25
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=40d99818ef11661332de8319479046b45f2da5b6;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(copy_internal): Don't make `mv foo symlink-to-foo' fail.
That is, even though source and destination are `the same,' don't fail
if the destination is a symlink.  From Peter Samuelson.
---

diff --git a/src/copy.c b/src/copy.c
index c8a3d92cac..726ed8bd3b 100644
--- a/src/copy.c
+++ b/src/copy.c
@@ -428,9 +428,8 @@ copy_internal (const char *src_path, const char *dst_path,
 	      && ! x->force
 
 	      /* Allow them to be the same (and don't set `same') if
-		 we're in move mode and they're both symlinks.  */
+		 we're in move mode and the target is a symlink.  */
 	      && !(move_mode
-		   && S_ISLNK (src_sb.st_mode)
 		   && S_ISLNK (dst_sb.st_mode))
 
 	      /* If we're making a backup, we'll detect the problem case in