cp: use FileInformation without dereference for symlink destination check to match GNU behaviour for test/nfs-removal-race#10086
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…heck to match GNU behaviour for test/nfs-removal-race (uutils#10086) * cp: use lstat for destination check to support LD_PRELOAD tests * fs: fix Windows is_symlink type mismatch and add explanatory comment * cp: use stat for dest existence check to support LD_PRELOAD
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I was testing around to see the different GLIBC calls on different versions of GLIBC and what was going on with this test. Turns out that the test doesn't even pass on the original cp on different versions of GLIBC. I was able to make a PR to the main coreutils repository that covers both GLIBC versions and when that in, this should pass the nfs-race GNU test
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The PR was merged coreutils/coreutils@1afe410 here and now it should allow us to use the FileInformation helpers so that we can replicate the types of calls that are made to better match how the file metadata is fetched.