[BusyBox] cp -df doesn't work as expect for links.

[Erik Andersen]

On Mon Sep 16, 2002 at 06:02:51PM +0800, Joe.C wrote:
> 
> 
> Erik Andersen wrote:
> >I just checked in a fix for this bug.  Can you grab the lates
> >from CVS and check that the bug is fixed for you?
> 
>    It didn't work if destination is a link. It works fine if
> the destination is a regular file.
>    Please try the following procedure.
> 
> ln -s aa xx
> ln -s bb yy
> cp -df xx yy

Ahh.  Looks like one more patch is needed.  Can you try
this additional change to libbb/copy_file.c:51
    -    if (stat(dest, &dest_stat) < 0) {
    +    if (lstat(dest, &dest_stat) < 0) {

 -Erik

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