>This consistently fails for me:
>
>$ cat Makefile
>doit:
> mkdir shadow
> cd shadow; ln -s ../*.c .
> cd shadow; rm hexdump.c
> cp Makefile shadow
>
>$ make
>mkdir shadow
>cd shadow; ln -s ../*.c .
>cd shadow; rm hexdump.c
>cp Makefile shadow
>cp: shadow/Makefile: Invalid argument
>make: *** [doit] Error 1
>
>$ ls -l shadow
>total 2
>-rw------- 1 paul users 0 Mar 11 15:55 Makefile
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 paul users 8 Mar 11 15:55 txt.c -> ../txt.c
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 paul users 15 Mar 11 15:55 watchchild.c -> ../watchchild.c
>Again, this is on 1.3.69 (haven't had an opportunity to go to .71 yet (or
I have just rebooted with 1.3.73, and with NFS loaded as a module, and
the above problem is not reproduceable, so it seems to be fixed.
Well done!
Paul Slootman
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