Prevent copying a directory into itself

Open AvianFlu opened this issue 14 years ago • 1 comments

cp -r stops users from doing this. ncp currently continues to recurse, resulting eventually in ENAMETOOLONG after many levels of directory nesting. While an obscure situation, this should be fixed.

Sep 28 '11 18:09 AvianFlu

repro here: http://runnable.com/U2vWs4L1zLJeDQ-Q/ncp-recursive-copy-issue

May 08 '14 19:05 anandkumarpatel