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 ** Bug fixes
 
+  cp once again diagnoses the invalid "cp -rl dir dir" right away,
+  rather than after creating a very deep dir/dir/dir/... hierarchy.
+  The bug strikes only with both --recursive (-r, -R) and --link (-l).
+  [bug introduced in coreutils-7.1]
+
   sort now handles specified key ends correctly.
   Previously -k1,1b would have caused leading space from field 2 to be
   included in the sort while -k2,3.0 would have not included field 3.