[email protected] wrote:
stat("badlink", 0x7ffc0eb805a0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
symlink("not-there", "badlink") = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
My guess is that you've removed the working directory somehow, or are on a buggy
filesystem that thinks the working directory has been removed. I can reproduce
the situation as follows on Ubuntu 16.04.3:
$ cd /tmp
$ mkdir d
$ cd d
$ rmdir /tmp/d
$ LC_ALL=C strace ln -s a b
...
stat("b", 0x7fffe6df6140) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
symlink("a", "b") = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
...
The only suggestion I have is "don't do that". If memory serves, POSIX doesn't
specify the behavior in this case.
