Subject: bug#10686: mv: moving hardlink of a softlink to the softlink does nothing

From: Bernhard Voelker <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:43:25 +0100

On 02/01/2012 09:21 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:

>   $ touch f && ln -s f l && ln l s && ls -ogi
>   total 0
>   6444 -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Feb  1 08:52 f
>   6462 lrwxrwxrwx 2 1 Feb  1 08:52 l -> f
>   6462 lrwxrwxrwx 2 1 Feb  1 08:52 s -> f
> 
> Trying to mv the hardlink over the symlink seems to succeed:
> 
>   $ ~/git/coreutils/src/mv s l
> 
> ... but the name 's' was not unlinked:

...

> That behaviour didn't change at least since version 7.1
> (on openSuSE-11.3), but back in the earlier days in 5.93
> (SLES-10.3), 's' disappeared as expected:

Hmm, looks like commit
   f1d1ee91217d08527c6bf7682987339e38116268
introduced this in 2006.

Have a nice day,
Berny