From: Martin Rode <martin.rode@zeroscale.com>
To: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: cp fails in this symlink case, kernel 2.4.25, reiserfs + ext2
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 09:56:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1081410996.3770.1405.camel@marge.pf-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1081365374.11164.24.camel@shaggy.austin.ibm.com>
On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 21:16, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 12:35, Martin Rode wrote:
> > 5) cp fails
> > apu:/home/martin/tmp/bug# (cd alpha/beta; cp ../latest/myfile .)
> > cp: cannot stat `../latest/myfile': No such file or directory
>
> When you cd to alpha/beta, your current directory is really
> .../tmp/bug/beta. Your shell may remember that you got there through
> the symlink in alpha, but cp will follow .., which is really bug.
Bug in "cp", "bash" or in the kernel fs-layer?
Martin
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Zeroscale GmbH & Co.
Game Development
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-08 8:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-07 17:35 Martin Rode
2004-04-07 19:16 ` Dave Kleikamp
2004-04-08 7:56 ` Martin Rode [this message]
2004-04-08 9:24 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-04-10 19:52 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-04-08 21:17 ` Michael Driscoll
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