Messages in this thread | | | From | Michael Driscoll <> | Subject | Re: cp fails in this symlink case, kernel 2.4.25, reiserfs + ext2 | Date | Thu, 8 Apr 2004 15:17:48 -0600 |
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On Thursday 08 April 2004 01:56, Martin Rode wrote: > On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 21:16, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > > 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
Call it a bug in POSIX, if anything ;)
Remember that '..' is a directory entry in the filesystem, not a construct of your shell. Specifically, it is a pointer to the parent directory of the directory in which it is found.
Usually /a/b/../c is the same as a/c, but not if /a/b is a symlink to /d as in this case.
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