#!/bin/sh # Confirm that copying a directory into itself gets a proper diagnostic. # Copyright (C) 2001-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . # In 4.0.35 and earlier, 'mkdir dir && cp -R dir dir' would produce this: # cp: won't create hard link 'dir/dir/dir' to directory '' # Now it gives this: # cp: can't copy a directory 'dir' into itself 'dir/dir' . "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src print_ver_ cp mkdir a dir || framework_failure_ # This command should exit nonzero. cp -R dir dir 2> out && fail=1 echo 1 >> out # This should, too. However, with coreutils-7.1 it would infloop. cp -rl dir dir 2>> out && fail=1 echo 2 >> out cp -rl a dir dir 2>> out && fail=1 echo 3 >> out cp -rl a dir dir 2>> out && fail=1 echo 4 >> out cat > exp <<\EOF cp: cannot copy a directory, 'dir', into itself, 'dir/dir' 1 cp: cannot copy a directory, 'dir', into itself, 'dir/dir' 2 cp: cannot copy a directory, 'dir', into itself, 'dir/dir' 3 cp: cannot copy a directory, 'dir', into itself, 'dir/dir' 4 EOF #' compare exp out || fail=1 Exit $fail