I get access denied when trying to view that bug. However, I believe you are using the command incorrectly. See the demonstration below.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ pwd /home/noland [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -la dir total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 noland noland 48 2008-01-21 15:22 . drwxr-xr-x 75 noland noland 4144 2008-01-21 15:22 .. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ln -s dir /tmp/dir [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /tmp/dir lrwxrwxrwx 1 noland noland 3 2008-01-21 15:24 /tmp/dir -> dir [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ rm /tmp/dir [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ln -s /home/noland/dir /tmp/dir [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /tmp/dir lrwxrwxrwx 1 noland noland 16 2008-01-21 15:24 /tmp/dir -> /home/noland/dir [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd /tmp/dir [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/dir$ pwd /tmp/dir [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/dir$ /bin/pwd /home/noland/dir Thanks, Brock On Jan 21, 2008 1:52 PM, Robert Miesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Attempting to run a command to the effect of 'ln -s Dir /path/to/DestDir/Dir > creates a broken symlink to "Dir" in /path/to/DestDir/. See the attached > script > for automated bug reproduction. Same effect also happens when using the '-t' > option. > I attempted to raise this issue with Gentoo, but I got the "RTFM" > response, which I had, and did again just to appease the "helpful" > person, only to get RTFM again. Hopefully somebody from the GNU world > (pun intended) will be able to help me out more than the person at > Gentoo did. You can find all the original information on the bug as well > as a cute script to help expose the bug at > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206911. > > Thanks in advance for all your help. > <http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206911> > _______________________________________________ > Bug-coreutils mailing list > Bug-coreutils@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils > _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
