tag 27538 notabug close 27538 stop On 06/30/2017 02:58 PM, Jonny Grant wrote: > Hello > > Managed to create a broken link, but didn't get any warning.
Why would you expect to get a warning? Symlink links are just like that - they are soft, loose or whatever you may call them. The target does not have to exist. Some people or software even use them to store little pieces of data in the target name of symbolic links; IIRC e.g. the old netscape did that to store the PID of the process like 'pid' -> 'localhost:12345'. > Example below - am I miss-understanding something? > > $ mkdir mydir > > $ ln -s sym mydir yes, you told ln(1) to create a symlink to 'sym', and as 'mydir' was an existing directory, the basename of the symlink is also 'sym', and the link is created in the directory. Please consider using additional options like -n, -v, -f or others to get results closer to your expectations. > $ cd mydir > > $ ls -l > > total 0 > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 jonny jonny 3 Jun 27 11:02 sym -> sym Therefore, ln(1) works as expected, and there's not much we can do about it. Thus, I'm hereby marking this as NOT-A-BUG and I'm closing this issue in our bug tracker, but you may of course continue the discussion by replying to this. Have a nice day, Berny
