bug#34876: [bug-coreutils] ln 8.31 on Solaris 10 is partially broken

[Paul Eggert]

Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:

> touch foo bar && ls -ld foo bar && ln -f foo bar
> ...
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bowman sysstaff 0 Mar 15 15:55 bar
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bowman sysstaff 0 Mar 15 15:55 foo
> ln: failed to access 'bar/foo': Not a directory

Thanks for reporting that. It's a serious error on Solaris 10, or on any 
platform lacking support for the O_DIRECTORY flag standardized in POSIX.1-2008.

I installed the attached patch. We should probably generate a new coreutils 
release soon.

0001-ln-port-to-platforms-lacking-O_DIRECTORY.patch
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