Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Odd symlink behavour | Date | 23 Oct 1996 17:15:51 GMT |
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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 -- Not speaking for Transmeta in any shape, way, or form.
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