Re: cp fails in this symlink case, kernel 2.4.25, reiserfs + ext2

[Dave Kleikamp]

On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 12:35, Martin Rode wrote:
> 5) cp fails
> apu:/home/martin/tmp/bug# (cd alpha/beta; cp ../latest/myfile .)
> cp: cannot stat `../latest/myfile': No such file or directory

When you cd to alpha/beta, your current directory is really
.../tmp/bug/beta.  Your shell may remember that you got there through
the symlink in alpha, but cp will follow .., which is really bug.

-- 
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center

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