[BusyBox] [PATCH] don't cp a directory into itself

[Erik Andersen]

On Wed Feb 18, 2004 at 06:15:56PM -0600, Chris Larson wrote:
> I was adding -s/--symbolic-link support to busybox cp when I noticed a
> bug with -r/-a.  Test case:
> 
> mkdir -p test/out
> cd test
> busybox cp -a * out/
> 
> Will never return until we run out of open files or similar.
> Coreutils cp on the other hand will error with "cannot copy a directory,
> `out', into itself, `out'".  Patch attached.

Applied,

 -Erik

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