Bug 105192 - /bin/ln from coreutils has changed behaviour
Summary: /bin/ln from coreutils has changed behaviour
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
: 105196 105199 (view as bug list)
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Basesystem (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 1
Hardware: Other All
: P5 - None : Critical
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Assignee: Andreas Schwab
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Reported: 2005-08-17 13:50 UTC by Dr. Werner Fink
Modified: 2005-09-01 11:24 UTC (History)
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Description Dr. Werner Fink 2005-08-17 13:50:14 UTC 
On a SuSE LINUX 9.3 you can do

tcsh/new> file ../../hugo
../../hugo: cannot open `../../hugo' (No such file or directory)
tcsh/new> ls -l hugo
lrwxrwxrwx  1 werner suse 10 Aug 17 15:47 hugo -> ../../hugo

which is very use to create symbolic link within a build root
directory like /var/tmp/tcsh-6.14.00-build/

g31:/usr/src/packages/BUILD/tcsh-6.14.00$ /bin/ln -fs ../../bin/tcsh
/var/tmp/tcsh-6.14.00-build/usr/bin/csh
/bin/ln: creating symbolic link `/var/tmp/tcsh-6.14.00-build/usr/bin/csh' to
`../../bin/tcsh': No such file or directory

... which fail with current STABLE
Comment 1 Andreas Schwab 2005-08-17 13:53:27 UTC 
/var/tmp/tcsh-6.14.00-build/usr/bin must exits, of course.
Comment 2 Andreas Schwab 2005-08-17 13:55:26 UTC 
*** Bug 105196 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Andreas Schwab 2005-08-17 14:07:34 UTC 
*** Bug 105199 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger 2005-08-19 00:09:54 UTC 
Symlinks to non-existent destinations should work just fine.

Werner, could you please recheck?
Comment 5 Mads Martin Joergensen 2005-09-01 11:04:26 UTC 
Werner?
Comment 6 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-09-01 11:24:58 UTC 
It works