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

From: Martin Rode
Date: Thu Apr 08 2004 - 03:04:39 EST


On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 21:16, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> 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.

Bug in "cp", "bash" or in the kernel fs-layer?

Martin

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