bug#55910: closed (cp error)

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regarding cp error
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> cp error
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> Sat, 11 Jun 2022 11:07:15 +0200
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> Package: coreutils
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> - Boot arch linux live cd 2022.06. It has coreutils 9.1-1.
> - mkfs.btrfs /dev/vda
> - mount /dev/vda /mnt
> - cp -ax / /mnt
> cp: cannot create directory '/mnt/': No such file or directory
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> If relevant: strace says that newfstatat and mkdirat have been given
> "" as pathname and return ENOENT.
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> Instead, the exact same steps work on arch linux 2022.03, which has
> coreutils 9.0-2. Note that -x should prevent trying to copy /mnt under
> itself; on 2022.03, there is a proper error message for cp -a / /mnt
> without -x.
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#55910: cp error Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2022 10:56:11 -0700 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.9.1 Thanks for the bug report. I installed the attached patch, which should fix it. Please give it a try.

0001-cp-fix-cp-rx-mnt.patch
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