tests/cp.sh

   1 #!/bin/sh
   2
   3 # Regression test for 69452380
   4 function regression_69452380()
   5 {
   6         echo "Verifying that cp -p preserves symlink's attributes, rather than the attributes of the symlink's target."
   7         test_dir=`mktemp -d /tmp/69452380_src_XXXX`
   8         touch ${test_dir}/target
   9         mkdir ${test_dir}/link_dir
  10         # Create symlink (must use relative path for the failure to occur)
  11         cd ${test_dir}/link_dir
  12         ln -s ../target link
  13         # cp (with attribute preservation) the test dir containing both the
  14         # target and the link (in a subdirectory) to a new dir.
  15         # Prior to 69452380, this failed because we followed the symlink to
  16         # try and preserve attributes for a non-existing file, instead of
  17         # preserving the attributes of the symlink itself.
  18         cp -R -P -p ${test_dir} /tmp/69452380_tgt_${RANDOM}
  19 }
  20
  21 set -eu -o pipefail
  22
  23 regression_69452380