Bug 105639 – coreutils-5.3.0-r1: the --parents option in 'cp' causes strange error messages

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Michal Januszewski (RETIRED) 2005-09-11 15:31:35 UTC]

When doing:
  cp -pRH --parents /dir1/dir2/dir3/file /tmp/testdir
cp displays the following error message:
  failed to get attributes of dir1/dir2/dir3/file
unless it was called with / as the cwd.

The problem is caused by a miscalculated offset passed to re_protect().

[Comment 1 Michal Januszewski (RETIRED) 2005-09-11 15:32:21 UTC]

Created attachment 68202 [details, diff]
A patch that fixes the described problem.

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2005-09-11 17:45:13 UTC]

Created attachment 68211 [details, diff]
100_all_coreutils-pathname-off-by-one.patch

mmm, no, this should be the correct fix ...

see if it works for me, i cant seem to get attr stuff to work on my box atm

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2005-09-11 17:45:27 UTC]

err, see if it works for *you* :)

[Comment 4 Michal Januszewski (RETIRED) 2005-09-12 06:07:20 UTC]

Yup, it seems to be working just fine with the patch applied.

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2005-09-12 17:35:30 UTC]

added to 5.3.0-r1

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2005-09-16 06:19:05 UTC]

*** Bug 106133 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***