[buug] ln -sf bug

[Michael Paoli]

Yes, definitely rather puzzling - at least at first glance.

I confirmed I get similar behavior (did quick check with Linux 2.4.26
kernel on reiserfs filesystem).  Not certain it's a "bug" at this point,
but my first inclination would be to say it at least violates the
"principle of least surprise".
I also checked and noted the ln command also returns exit value 0.

I'm inclined to do an strace and see what's happening at a lower level
(call, arguments, and return value).


Quoting Ian Zimmerman <itz at buug.org>:

> Same here.  Local drive, definitely clean, exit status of ln is 0.
> itz at unicorn:~$ uname -a
> Linux unicorn 2.4.26-2custom7 #1 Wed Jul 21 00:35:24 PDT 2004 i686
> GNU/Linux