Linda Walsh wrote:
Any idea how this managed to be broken?
My guess is that it's SELinux. Try doing the following:
1. Create 'dir' as before.
2. As the user, run the following shell commands:
LC_ALL=C
export LC_ALL
ln dir/a/symfile dir/b
Assuming this fails, look at the output of:
strace ln dir/a/symfile dir/b
My guess is that you'll see something like this:
linkat(AT_FDCWD, "dir/a/symfile", AT_FDCWD, "dir/b/symfile", 0) = -1
EPERM (Operation not permitted)
If so, the problem would appear to be in SELinux itself.
