From 4303f0454592421eea48be87777d32a49e1d5e5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 12:27:47 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] (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.

---
 src/copy.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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)
 		{
-- 
2.47.3