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From: | Assaf Gordon |
Subject: | bug#14618: Erroneous sparse copy command results in empty file |
Date: | Fri, 19 Oct 2018 10:50:24 -0600 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 |
retitle 14618 cp: erroneous sparse copy command results in empty file close 14618 stop (triaging old bugs) On 14/06/13 02:03 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 06/14/2013 12:35 PM, Koen De Wit wrote:When trying to create a sparse copy of a file on a different filesystem you get an "Invalid cross-device link" error, as expected. However, an empty file is created instead of the sparse copy:This was discussed previously: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2013-03/msg00056.html Summary of that is that it may be best handled outside of cp.
With no further follow-ups in 5 years, I'm closing this bug. -assaf
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