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#11949
Symbolic links do not work
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Reported by: Nick Thomas <nctsm <at> safe-mail.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:26:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Done: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #17 received at control <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
tag 11949 - moreinfo
close 11949
thanks
Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 07/15/2012 05:56 PM, Nick Thomas wrote:
> > Hello!
> > I tried to create a symbolic link using ln -s ... but instead of getting
> > a link of size about 20 bytes I obtained an executable file of length
> > 1.9Mb i.e. a copy of the destination file !!
>
> That's exceedingly unlikely.
> Maybe it created a hard link?
> In any case we'll need more info.
> kernel, file system, ln version, command issued, ...
>
> > This was using sudo to repair a problem running qmake in qt3 in /usr/bin
> > Nick Thomas
There hasn't been any new information added to the request for more
information in two months. And the reading of the ticket suggests
that there is not a bug here. Therefore I am closing this ticket as
resolved. If you have more information please feel free to continue
the discussion.
Bob
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