From 447bc2d17f3abfac1f0f1a801d01641aada7027c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Glenn L McGrath <bug1@ihug.co.nz>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 05:20:59 +0000
Subject: Patch from Matt Kraai to fix debian bug #227081
cp does not truncate existing destinations. That is, after
running
echo foo > foo
echo fubar > fubar
cp foo fubar
the contents of fubar are
foo
r
instead of
foo
---
libbb/copy_file.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/libbb/copy_file.c b/libbb/copy_file.c
index ffdb8242b..7ddb9a23f 100644
--- a/libbb/copy_file.c
+++ b/libbb/copy_file.c
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ int copy_file(const char *source, const char *dest, int flags)
}
}
- dst_fd = open(dest, O_WRONLY);
+ dst_fd = open(dest, O_WRONLY|O_TRUNC);
if (dst_fd == -1) {
if (!(flags & FILEUTILS_FORCE)) {
bb_perror_msg("unable to open `%s'", dest);
--
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