fcopy to a symlinked directory

[Christopher Huhn]

Hi y'all

I try to `fcopy -r /dir_a` where dir_a is a symlink to dir_b – on some 
systems.

fcopy fails with "File exists at fcopy line 266" (FAI 5.10.3).

The error also occurs for `fcopy /dir_a/myfile`.

The obvious solution would be:
 > if ifclass SOME_SYSTEM; then
 >   fcopy -r /dir_b
 > else
 >   fcopy -r /dir_a
 > fi
but I'd like to avoid that due to its ugliness.

Looking at the code it looks like this case is simply unhandled by 
fcopy. Is that correct?

Cheers,

Christopher

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Christopher Huhn
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