bug#8419: cp -au : New hard links in source becomes new files at destination when using cp -au

[Pádraig Brady]

On 26/07/11 14:23, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
> ...
> 
>> Note also your original test didn't fail for me on ext4 on F15.
> 

> I suspect you'll see that it's processing those two files in the reverse
> order on your system.  In case it's kernel-related, I'm using this:
>   2.6.38.8-32.fc15.x86_64
> and the disk is an SSD.

My guess here is there is inode sorting going on,
which is unstable and returning matching inodes in
a non deterministic order?

Anyway I've updated the test (attached) to try both ways.

cheers,
Pádraig.

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