[buug] ln -sf bug

[Rick Moen]

Quoting johnd (john at jjdev.com):

> root at stang:/usr/src# ls -l
> total 34276
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           11 Apr 28 17:16 linux -> linux-2.6.5/
> drwxr-xr-x   15 573      573           744 Apr 28 17:11 linux-2.4.25/
> drwxrwxr-x   18 500      500          1152 Aug  5 17:21 linux-2.6.5/
> drwxrwxr-x   18 500      500           624 Aug  5 17:20 linux-2.6.7/
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root     35092228 Aug  5 17:19 linux-2.6.7.tar.bz2
> root at stang:/usr/src# ln -sf linux-2.6.7 linux
> root at stang:/usr/src# ls -l
> total 34276
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           11 Apr 28 17:16 linux -> linux-2.6.5/
> drwxr-xr-x   15 573      573           744 Apr 28 17:11 linux-2.4.25/
> drwxrwxr-x   18 500      500          1152 Aug  5 17:21 linux-2.6.5/
> drwxrwxr-x   18 500      500           624 Aug  5 17:20 linux-2.6.7/
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root     35092228 Aug  5 17:19 linux-2.6.7.tar.bz2
> root at stang:/usr/src#
> 
> 
> shouldn't ln -sf linux-2.6.7 linux make linux by a sym link to linux-2.6.7?

Interesting.   It's surprising to me, too:

alfredo:/usr/src# ls -l
total 16
drwxr-xr-x   14 root     root         4096 2004-04-09 02:50 kernel-source-2.4.17
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     src            20 2004-06-18 08:30 linux -> kernel-source-2.4.17
drwxr-xr-x    7 root     root         4096 2004-04-08 11:17 rpm
alfredo:/usr/src# mkdir foo
alfredo:/usr/src# ln -sf foo linux
alfredo:/usr/src# ls -l
total 20
drwxr-sr-x    2 root     src          4096 2004-08-05 10:11 foo
drwxr-xr-x   14 root     root         4096 2004-08-05 10:11 kernel-source-2.4.17
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     src            20 2004-06-18 08:30 linux -> kernel-source-2.4.17
drwxr-xr-x    7 root     root         4096 2004-04-08 11:17 rpm
alfredo:/usr/src# whoami
root
alfredo:/usr/src# rm linux
alfredo:/usr/src# ln -s foo linux
alfredo:/usr/src# ls -l
total 20
drwxr-sr-x    2 root     src          4096 2004-08-05 10:11 foo
drwxr-xr-x   14 root     root         4096 2004-08-05 10:11 kernel-source-2.4.17
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     src             3 2004-08-05 10:12 linux -> foo
drwxr-xr-x    7 root     root         4096 2004-04-08 11:17 rpm
alfredo:/usr/src#