GNU bug report logs - #6052
Is this "ln" bug?

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: "Hoisko, Sakari (EXT-TietoEnator - FI/Tampere)" <sakari.hoisko.ext <at> nsn.com>

Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:19:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: "Hoisko\, Sakari \(EXT-TietoEnator - FI\/Tampere\)" <sakari.hoisko.ext <at> nsn.com>
Cc: 6052 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6052: Is this "ln" bug?
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:04:57 +0200

"Hoisko, Sakari (EXT-TietoEnator - FI/Tampere)"
<sakari.hoisko.ext <at> nsn.com> writes:

> 	As you could see link still point to "EKA_DIR"... it should
> point to "TOKA_DIR" because there was -f parameter defined in ln
> command. 

You didn't use --no-dereference (-n), thus the symbolic link was first
dereferenced, resolving to a directory, and the link was created in this
directory.

Andreas.

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