Package: coreutils Version: 6.10-6 Severity: normal File: /bin/ln lapse:/tmp/cdt.wMW17026> ls -l #[315] lrwxrwxrwx 1 madduck root 3 2008-04-14 16:48 bar -> foo/ drwx--S--- 2 madduck root 4096 2008-04-14 16:48 baz/ drwx--S--- 2 madduck root 4096 2008-04-14 16:48 foo/
Given this situation, I note that I have to lapse:/tmp/cdt.wMW17026> ls -l bar #[319] lrwxrwxrwx 1 madduck root 3 2008-04-14 16:48 bar -> foo/ lapse:/tmp/cdt.wMW17026> ls -l bar/ #[320] total 0 append the trailing slash to get /bin/ls to dereference the symlink. Yet, lapse:/tmp/cdt.wMW17026> ln -sf baz bar #[316] lapse:/tmp/cdt.wMW17026> ls -la #[317] total 32 drwx--S--- 4 madduck root 4096 2008-04-14 16:48 ./ drwxrwsrwt 78 root root 20480 2008-04-14 16:47 ../ lrwxrwxrwx 1 madduck root 3 2008-04-14 16:48 bar -> foo/ drwx--S--- 2 madduck root 4096 2008-04-14 16:48 baz/ drwx--S--- 2 madduck root 4096 2008-04-14 16:48 foo/ lapse:/tmp/cdt.wMW17026> ls -l #[318] total 8 lrwxrwxrwx 1 madduck root 3 2008-04-14 16:48 bar -> foo/ drwx--S--- 2 madduck root 4096 2008-04-14 16:48 baz/ drwx--S--- 2 madduck root 4096 2008-04-14 16:48 foo/ ln behaves differently, and IMHO wrongly. ln -sf baz bar should be overwriting the symlink bar with a new one pointing to baz. ln -sf baz bar/ would first dereference bar and thus drop the symlink in the directory foo. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1+scoflowctrl.1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.45-1 Access control list shared library ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 2.0.59-1 SELinux shared libraries coreutils recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
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