0005119: cp: Dosn't make a backup if the last component of the source name is "."

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0005119	CentOS-5	coreutils	public	2011-09-17 13:09	2011-09-17 21:48

Reporter	dbr
Priority	normal	Severity	crash	Reproducibility	always
Status	acknowledged	Resolution	open
Platform	x86_64	OS		OS Version	5.7
Product Version
Target Version		Fixed in Version

Summary	0005119: cp: Dosn't make a backup if the last component of the source name is "."
Description	cp doesn't make backup if last component of the source name is ".". That seems to be a known bug that wasn't fix in CentOS 5.7. coreutils from CentOS 5.6 were okay.
Steps To Reproduce	CentOS 5.7 (buggy) ------------------- [root@centos57 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.7 (Final) [root@centos57 ~]# rpm -qa \| grep ^coreutils coreutils-5.97-34.el5 [root@centos57 ~]# mkdir x y [root@centos57 ~]# cd y [root@centos57 y]# cp -ab ../x/. . cp: cannot backup `./.': Device or resource busy CentOS 5.6 (okay) ----------------- [root@centos56 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.6 (Final) [root@centos56 ~]# rpm -qa \| grep ^coreutils coreutils-5.97-23.el5_6.el54 [root@centos56 ~]# mkdir x y [root@centos56 ~]# cd y [root@centos56 y]# cp -ab ../x/. .
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dbr 2011-09-17 13:10 reporter ~0013293	Might be related to http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-coreutils@gnu.org/msg07615.html

range 2011-09-17 20:56 administrator ~0013297	This needs to be addressed upstream (and yes, they don't frown upon bug reports from CentOS users). A quick search doesn't reveal any report of this at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/

tru 2011-09-17 21:48 administrator ~0013298	ack'ed: registered upstream at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739344

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2011-09-17 13:09	dbr	New Issue
2011-09-17 13:10	dbr	Note Added: 0013293
2011-09-17 20:56	range	Note Added: 0013297
2011-09-17 21:48	tru	Note Added: 0013298
2011-09-17 21:48	tru	Status	new => acknowledged