[BusyBox] cp says files are the same even though they are not

[Rob Landley]

On Monday 11 April 2005 07:09 am, Aizer Danny-BDA023 wrote:

> After checking the busy-box-0.60.3 libbb/copy_file.c (called by cp.c), I've
> seen that the following code triggers this message:
>
> 	if (dest_exists && source_stat.st_rdev == dest_stat.st_rdev &&
> 			source_stat.st_ino == dest_stat.st_ino) {
> 		error_msg("`%s' and `%s' are the same file", source, dest);
> 		return -1;
> 	}

Sounds like a kernel problem.  They should have different st_rdev values if 
they're on different block devices.

Rob