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From: kaul@icarus.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rich Kaul)
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Subject: Re: ln -s /var/tmp /tmp
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Date: 20 Aug 90 15:02:49 GMT
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In-reply-to: meissner@osf.org's message of 20 Aug 90 14:21:44 GMT

In article <MEISSNER.90Aug20102144@osf.osf.org> meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes:
   Some (all?) versions of cp use lstat instead of stat to determine if
   the last argument is a directory, and fail if /tmp is a symlink.

Some.  We run a Sun 3/180 running SunOS 3.5 with /tmp symlinked to
another disk without problems.
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Rich Kaul                         | It wouldn't be research if we
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