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Package: coreutils
Version: 5.2.1-2
Severity: normal
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The info node "ln invocation" has this example at the end:
ln -s a b .. # creates links ../a and ../b pointing to ./a and ./b
I have tried it. The result: ../a pointing to itself and ../b
pointing to itself. Such self-referencing links are totally
useless.
I expected that the result is ../a pointing to a in the
current directory, i.e the directory in which the command was issued.
Similarly for ../b.
My general experience is that
ln -s relative/path/to/target linkname
interprets the path to target relative to the parent directory of
linkname and not relative to the working directory.
In contrast
ln relative/path/to/file linkname
interprets the path relative to the working directory.
This difference is not documented in the info page and I find it
confusing and unexpected.
Best wishes,
Gabor Braun
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9.20041228
Locale: LANG=hu_HU.iso88592, LC_CTYPE=hu_HU.iso88592 (charmap=ISO-8859-2)
(ignored: LC_ALL set to hu_HU.iso88592)
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.23-1 Access control list shared
library
ii libc6 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
an
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The wording was updated in 5.94-1.
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Thomas Hood
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