From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050302 Firefox/1.0.1 Fedora/1.0.1-1.3.2 Description of problem: The info page for cp says that the -L option will always dereference symbolic links. However, it does not do so if the -l option is also used. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): coreutils-5.2.1-31 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. cp -lL /lib/libc.so.6 /tmp 2. ls -l /tmp/libc.so.6 Actual Results: lrwxrwxrwx 3 root root 13 Mar 12 09:04 /tmp/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.3.4.so Expected Results: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1509072 Mar 12 11:06 /tmp/libc.so.6 Additional info: The expected result obtains if the -l option is omitted.
Reported upstream. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-03/threads.html (not in archive yet)