Dear GNU Coreutils Maintainers
Today I was trying to create a Relative Symbolic Link to ~/.face (which
itself is a Symlink) named ~/.icon with the following Command:
$ ln -sir ~/.face ~/.icon
But ln linked ~/.icon to the TARGET ~/.face was linking to, instead (it
followed or dereferenced ~/.face).
As if I had used the -L, --logical (dereference TARGETs that are symbolic
links).
I confirmed this behaviour with ZSH (zsh 5.9 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)), bash
(5.2.37(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)) and sh (sh-5.2) on Manjaro Linux
with the Linux 6.1.138-1-MANJARO Kernel and GNOME on Wayland version 48.
In a conversation with the Claude 3 Haiku AI I confirmed that this is very
likely to be a bug ~ since `ln` should only dereference the TARGET when the
-L Option is given.
Thank You for Your Time ~ and I'll wait for your Response
Greetings from Erfurt in Thuringia/Germany
Bela. Kroll (NA0341)
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