GNU bug report logs - #13447
ln "" foo gives misleading error message

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Ken Irving <ken.irving <at> alaska.edu>

Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:32:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>

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From: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
To: 13447 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Ken Irving <ken.irving <at> alaska.edu>
Subject: bug#13447: ln "" foo gives misleading error message
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 02:44:37 -0700

Jim Meyering wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > Interestingly I notice that solaris for example allows a NULL old_path.
> 
> That Solaris behavior is contrary to POSIX 2008
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/symlink.html

Where does it say this?  I read it through in detail but I didn't see
that it required a diagnostic to be emitted in the case that value is
am empty string.  What did I miss?

Bob
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