Re: Bad cp -a behaviour

[Andreas Schwab]

Tim Waugh <address@hidden> writes:

> The problem seems to be that when a destination file is written it is
> done so by opening the file without removing it first.  If it is a
> hardlink to a previous destination file from the same command it will
> be overwritten.

This is required by POSIX.  If you don't want this use
--remove-destination.

Andreas.

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