From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 12:27:47 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (copy_internal): Change test of source type from !S_ISREG to S_ISLNK.
X-Git-Tag: CPPI-1_12~1402
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4303f0454592421eea48be87777d32a49e1d5e5b;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(copy_internal): Change test of source type from !S_ISREG to S_ISLNK.
Reported by Paul Eggert in
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-10/msg00050.html.
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diff --git a/src/copy.c b/src/copy.c
index 85cd638a00..62cf4ec6e7 100644
--- a/src/copy.c
+++ b/src/copy.c
@@ -1081,7 +1081,7 @@ copy_internal (const char *src_path, const char *dst_path,
 		   && (x->unlink_dest_before_opening
 		       || (x->preserve_links && 1 < dst_sb.st_nlink)
 		       || (x->dereference == DEREF_NEVER
-			   && ! S_ISREG (src_sb.st_mode))))
+			   && S_ISLNK (src_sb.st_mode))))
 	    {
 	      if (unlink (dst_path) && errno != ENOENT)
 		{