tests/cp/r-vs-symlink.sh
#!/bin/sh
# cp -r should not create symlinks.  Fixed in fileutils-4.1.5.

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# Restored old behavior (whereby cp -r preserves symlinks) in 4.1.6,
# though now such usage evokes a warning:
# cp: 'slink': WARNING: using -r to copy symbolic links is not portable

. "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src
print_ver_ cp

echo abc > foo || framework_failure_
ln -s foo slink || framework_failure_
ln -s no-such-file no-file || framework_failure_


# This would fail in 4.1.5, not in 4.1.6.
cp -r no-file junk 2>/dev/null || fail=1

cp -r slink bar 2>/dev/null || fail=1
set x $(ls -l bar); shift; mode=$1
case $mode in
  l*) ;;
  *) fail=1;;
esac

Exit $fail
