Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263146AbUDHIDL (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Apr 2004 04:03:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264128AbUDHIDL (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Apr 2004 04:03:11 -0400 Received: from quimby.programmfabrik.de ([193.108.181.138]:28690 "EHLO quimby.programmfabrik.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263146AbUDHIDI (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Apr 2004 04:03:08 -0400 Subject: Re: cp fails in this symlink case, kernel 2.4.25, reiserfs + ext2 From: Martin Rode To: Dave Kleikamp Cc: linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <1081365374.11164.24.camel@shaggy.austin.ibm.com> References: <1081359310.1212.537.camel@marge.pf-berlin.de> <1081365374.11164.24.camel@shaggy.austin.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Zeroscale GmbH & Co. Message-Id: <1081410996.3770.1405.camel@marge.pf-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 09:56:37 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 801 Lines: 23 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 -- Zeroscale GmbH & Co. Game Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/