GNU bug report logs - #11949
Symbolic links do not work

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Package: coreutils;

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 #8 received at 11949 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Nick Thomas <nctsm <at> safe-mail.net>
Cc: 11949 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11949: Symbolic links
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:59:42 +0100

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

cheers,
Pádraig.
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