Re: [sshfs] symlink and cp problem

[Miklos S. <mi...@sz...>]

sergio <ma...@se...> writes:

> Hello.
>
> I have the following problem with sshfs:
>
> % sshfs host:/ mnt
> % ln -s ads qwe
> % cp -a qwe mnt/tmp
> cp: failed to preserve ownership for mnt/tmp/qwe: No such file or directory
>
> cp -a mnt/tmp/qwe mnt/tmp/zxc gives the same

Yes, unfortunately the SFTP protocol doesn't support setting attributes
of symlinks.

There's a subtle bug there as well in sshfs: it shouldn't even try to
change the attributes of a symlink since it will succeed and change the
attributes of the symlink's target instead of the symlink itself, if the
target exists.

Thanks,
Miklos