Bug 86302 - directory mounted with --bind causes cp -R to fail
Summary: directory mounted with --bind causes cp -R to fail
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: fileutils
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i586
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tim Waugh
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Whiteboard:
Depends On: 87658
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-03-19 07:38 UTC by Russell Stuart
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:52 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2004-12-10 12:02:18 UTC
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Description Russell Stuart 2003-03-19 07:38:36 UTC
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Description of problem:
This command:
  cp --archive --one-file-system --verbose src dst
fails if the directory src contains a mount point
mounted with 'mount --bind'.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
fileutils-4.1.9-11

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Run these commands as root:
  mkdir -p src/{x,y}
  mount --bind src/x src/y
  cp --archive --one-file-system src dst

Actual Results:  The cp command exits with a status of 1
and gives the error message:
  cp: will not create hard link `dst/y' to directory `dst/x'
This directory structure is created:
  dst/
    x/
Note: there is no dst/y.

Expected Results:
1. cp should give no error messages.
2. cp should have an exit status of 0.
3. cp should create the directories dst/, dst/x/ and dst/y/.

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2003-03-19 17:57:30 UTC
FWIW, rsync seems to behave correctly in this situation.

Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2003-03-31 13:18:15 UTC
Reported to bug-coreutils mailing list.


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