[Bug 25015] cp(1) options -i and -f do not work as documented

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Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2025 22:53:58 UTC 
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25015

--- Comment #4 from Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> ---
This is ancient, but still open, and I've been working on cp recently, so...

Bug 1.1: When the destination is a dead link, POSIX expects cp to create the
target of the link.  And as Garrett points out, the -f option only applies “if
a file descriptor for a destination file cannot be obtained”.

Bug 1.2: Still broken in 15.  It works without -R though.

Bug 2: Still broken in 15.  It works without -R though.

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