Dear GNU Coreutils
Maintainers
Today I was trying to create
a Relative Symbolic Link to ~/.face
(which itself is a Symlink) named ~/.icon with the following
Command:
$ ln -sir ~/.face
~/.icon
But ln linked ~/.icon to the TARGET
~/.face was linking to, instead (it followed or
dereferenced ~/.face).
As if I had used the -L,
--logical (dereference TARGETs that are symbolic
links).
I confirmed this behaviour with ZSH (zsh 5.9 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)), bash (5.2.37(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)) and sh
(sh-5.2) on Manjaro Linux with the Linux 6.1.138-1-MANJARO Kernel and GNOME on Wayland version 48.
In a conversation with the Claude 3 Haiku
AI I confirmed that this is very likely to be a bug ~ since `ln` should
only dereference the TARGET when the -L
Option is given.
Thank You for Your Time ~ and I'll wait for
your Response
Greetings
from Erfurt in
Thuringia/Germany
Bela. Kroll
(NA0341)
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