On 05/07/2022 16:04, Paul Eggert wrote:
Thanks for reporting that. I installed the attached patch.
This will usually work, but there are cases where this may lose data, as previously discussed at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=921708 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2013-03/msg00056.html I'm not sure cp can robustly clean up in this situation? cheers, Pádraig