On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 12:10:25PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
Thanks for the report. But what you are seeing is not a bug.
Thanks for your long explanation. I accept that the behaviour of 'ln -s' is as
desired and I have misunderstood something.
However, I think that the info documentation
Braun Gabor wrote:
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.
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
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