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bug#29475: filesystem does not allow ln to create bad symbolic link
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Paul Eggert |
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bug#29475: filesystem does not allow ln to create bad symbolic link |
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Date: |
Mon, 27 Nov 2017 14:37:25 -0800 |
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On 11/27/2017 10:17 AM, address@hidden wrote:
$ ln -s not-there badlink
ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘badlink’: No such file or directory
What happens if you do the following shell command instead?
strace ln -s not-there badlink
On my platform (Fedora 27) the strace output ends this way:
stat("badlink", 0x7ffebc9ddbe0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
symlinkat("not-there", AT_FDCWD, "badlink") = 0
lseek(0, 0, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
close(0) = 0
close(1) = 0
close(2) = 0
exit_group(0) = ?
which is expected. What happens on your platform?