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------- Additional Comments From bodewig@apache.org  2005-03-14 11:28 -------
Coming back to a really old report.

I completely agree that Ant is inconsistent here, even though it has come to behave
better in single-file copy here, it will report that the file doesn't exist (what
Conor notes below).

But this inconsistency goes further than just <copy>, we don't deal with those
unreadable/non-existant files in other tasks either.

As for the copy case, I'm afraid we are getting struck by backwards compatibility
again.  Touching the current beahvior would lead to breaking builds if we made
copy fail on bad symlinks.  All we could do was issuing a warning, IMHO.

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