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Re: Copy (dired mode) fails to break hard link (23.0.93)
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Sven Joachim |
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Re: Copy (dired mode) fails to break hard link (23.0.93) |
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Tue, 19 May 2009 13:41:12 +0200 |
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On 2009-05-19 13:26 +0200, Neal Becker wrote:
> I just found (much to my surprise) that using 'C' copy in dired mode to a
> file that was hard linked did not break the link. This is not what I
> expected to happen.
It is consistent with the behavior of cp(1), however. And unlinking the
target first will fail if you don't have write permission to its
directory.
Sven