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bug#23564: Unexpected results from `ln --symbolic --interactive --relati


From: Florian Schweiger
Subject: bug#23564: Unexpected results from `ln --symbolic --interactive --relative`
Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 10:56:06 +0100
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.2

Hi,

I've noticed the following unexpected behaviour in `ln` which appears to be a bug. I'm referring to the attached MWE Bash script test_ln-symbolic-interactive-relative.sh.

When run, it creates a directory "test_dir" and a file "test_file" in the current working directory. Then it tries to create a relative, symbolic link to the file in said directory. When the "--interactive" option is present, this operation fails every other time in that it overwrites the existing link with an unreachable target.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION:

* First invocation
    $ ./test_ln-symbolic-interactive-relative.sh
    ln -sirv test_file test_dir/test_link
    ‘test_dir/test_link’ -> ‘../test_file’
* Second invocation:
    $ ./test_ln-symbolic-interactive-relative.sh
    ln -sirv test_file test_dir/test_link
    ln: replace ‘test_dir/test_link’? y
    ‘test_dir/test_link’ -> ‘test_file’
* Third invocation:
    $ ./test_ln-symbolic-interactive-relative.sh
    ln -sirv test_file test_dir/test_link
    ln: replace ‘test_dir/test_link’? y
    ‘test_dir/test_link’ -> ‘../test_file’


AFFECTED SYSTEM:
    * ln (GNU coreutils) 8.21
    * GNU bash, version 4.3.11(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
    * Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
* Linux 3.13.0-67-generic #110-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 23 13:24:41 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

On other systems, the symbolic link is set as expected every time.

WORKING SETUP:
    * ln (GNU coreutils) 8.21
    * GNU bash, version 4.2.53(1)-release (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu)
    * openSUSE 13.1 (Bottle) (x86_64)
* Linux 3.11.10-29-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 5 16:24:00 UTC 2015 (338c513) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Cheers,
Florian



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