On 11/27/2017 10:17 AM, bug-coreut...@trodman.com 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?
