[BusyBox 0001412]: "cp -a" allows copy of a directory into itself
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Fri Jun 29 16:46:16 UTC 2007
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http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=1412
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Reported By: kiltedknight
Assigned To: BusyBox
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Project: BusyBox
Issue ID: 1412
Category: Other
Reproducibility: always
Severity: minor
Priority: normal
Status: assigned
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Date Submitted: 06-29-2007 09:16 PDT
Last Modified: 06-29-2007 09:46 PDT
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Summary: "cp -a" allows copy of a directory into itself
Description:
execute the following series of commands on GNU linux:
mkdir /tmp/dir1
touch /tmp/dir1/stuff
cp -a /tmp/dir1 /tmp/dir1
The following error is returned: cp: cannot copy a directory, `/tmp/dir1',
into itself, `/tmp/dir1/dir1'
Now run these:
mkdir /tmp/dir1
touch /tmp/dir1/stuff
busybox cp -a /tmp/dir1 /tmp/dir1
Now you get the following:
cp: cannot stat
'/tmp/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1/dir1':
File name too long
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vapier - 06-29-07 09:22
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i wouldnt really call this a bug ... i'd say "dont do it"
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kiltedknight - 06-29-07 09:28
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Yeah, but you never know what a script will attempt at some point.
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vapier - 06-29-07 09:36
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regardless of what a script does, you're going to end up with errors that
someone needs to go in and clean/fix ... what exact form that error takes
i think is irrelevant
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kiltedknight - 06-29-07 09:46
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Except that this isn't just an error. It actually recursively copies the
directories. GNU Linux cp does not. It does it one time and exits with
the error.
Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
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06-29-07 09:16 kiltedknight New Issue
06-29-07 09:16 kiltedknight Status new => assigned
06-29-07 09:16 kiltedknight Assigned To => BusyBox
06-29-07 09:22 vapier Note Added: 0002534
06-29-07 09:28 kiltedknight Note Added: 0002535
06-29-07 09:28 kiltedknight Issue Monitored: kiltedknight
06-29-07 09:36 vapier Note Added: 0002536
06-29-07 09:46 kiltedknight Note Added: 0002537
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