Re: Report a bug in the ln command

[Philip Rowlands]

On Sat, 8 Aug 2009, Laemmerhirt, Kai wrote:


in the already existing directory /srv/backup/home I wanted to create a
link for the user eddi to eddis home directory for data backup
reasons. In order not to change into the target directory I used the
following command:

ln -sf /home/eddi /srv/backup/home/eddi


Do you observe that running this command created two symlinks?
/srv/backup/home/eddi - /home/eddi
/home/eddi/eddi - /home/eddi

That's unusual; please try re-running the command with the --verbose 
flag, and report the results here. The -f flag shouldn't have any 
effect unless the link(s) already exist.



Cheers,
Phil

Report a bug in the ln command

[Laemmerhirt, Kai]

Hello,

in the already existing directory /srv/backup/home I wanted to create a 
link for the user eddi to eddis home directory for data backup 
reasons. In order not to change into the target directory I used the 
following command: 

ln -sf /home/eddi /srv/backup/home/eddi


The link eddi was created  as expected -in /srv/backup/home. However, 
under /home/eddi was created a link eddi, too, which refers to 
/home/eddi. I think that the link in the home directory is a bug. 
Unfortunately this bug lead in my case to a recursive backup of the home 
directory. By the way, this phenomenon only occurs by utilizing the 
force-option f.

Best regards

Kai Laemmerhit