ln bug report

[Wu Jianglin]

current status:

# ls -l
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     22 11  2 16:49 java -> /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_05
drwxr-xr-x   9 root root   4096 12  6 10:18 jdk1.5.0_05
drwxr-xr-x   9 root root   4096 11 11 06:19 jdk1.5.0_06

#ls -l java/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     4096 11 25 16:30 bin
-r--r--r--  1 root root     2487 11 25 16:30 COPYRIGHT
drwxr-xr-x  8 root root     4096 11 25 16:30 demo
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root     4096 11 25 16:30 include
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root     4096 11 25 16:30 jre
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     4096 11 25 16:30 lib
-r--r--r--  1 root root    15584 11 25 16:30 LICENSE
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root     4096 11 25 16:30 man
-r--r--r--  1 root root    20415 11 25 16:30 README.html
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root     4096 11 25 16:30 sample
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 17519221 11 25 16:30 src.zip
-r--r--r--  1 root root    68419 11 25 16:30 THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME.txt

well, when i perform the following command:

# ln -sf jdk1.5.0_06 java

guess what happened? it looks like this:

# ls -l java/
total 17328
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     4096 11 25 16:30 bin
-r--r--r--  1 root root     2487 11 25 16:30 COPYRIGHT
drwxr-xr-x  8 root root     4096 11 25 16:30 demo
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root     4096 11 25 16:30 include
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       11 12  6 10:22 jdk1.5.0_06 -> jdk1.5.0_06
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root     4096 11 25 16:30 jre
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     4096 11 25 16:30 lib
-r--r--r--  1 root root    15584 11 25 16:30 LICENSE
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root     4096 11 25 16:30 man
-r--r--r--  1 root root    20415 11 25 16:30 README.html
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root     4096 11 25 16:30 sample
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 17519221 11 25 16:30 src.zip
-r--r--r--  1 root root    68419 11 25 16:30 THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME.txt

it is really not this command ln -sf mean, it should be wrong behavior. what i 
want is to override the existent symbol link java. it does work on others unix 
platform.  

Micahel Wu from Beijing, China.