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bug#11949: Symbolic links
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Pádraig Brady |
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bug#11949: Symbolic links |
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Date: |
Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:59:42 +0100 |
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On 07/15/2012 05:56 PM, Nick Thomas wrote:
> Hello!
> I tried to create a symbolic link using ln -s ... but instead of getting
> a link of size about 20 bytes I obtained an executable file of length
> 1.9Mb i.e. a copy of the destination file !!
That's exceedingly unlikely.
Maybe it created a hard link?
In any case we'll need more info.
kernel, file system, ln version, command issued, ...
> This was using sudo to repair a problem running qmake in qt3 in /usr/bin
> Nick Thomas
cheers,
Pádraig.