Re: Odd symlink behavour
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
23 Oct 1996 17:15:51 GMT
Followup to: <326D3AB0.1D338330@interpath.com>
By author: James Hughes <jamesh@interpath.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> I have noticed an odd behavour with symlinked directories under the
> 2.0.22 kernel on the ext2 filesystem. When copying a file from a
> symlinked directory using a relative destination, the file is copied not
> to the location relative to the symlinked directory, but to the location
> relative to the original directory.
>
This has nothing to do with the kernel -- rather, this is a function
of the cp(1) program.
-hpa
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