Bug#226722: fails to create symlink

[Bastian Blank]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:39:08PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote:
> A patch that fixes it is attached.

the patch is broken, the proper behavior is to ignore non-existant
source files in symlink mode.

bastian

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Index: coreutils/ln.c
===================================================================
--- coreutils/ln.c      (revision 141)
+++ coreutils/ln.c      (working copy)
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
                        src_name = src;
                }
 
-               if (stat(*argv, &statbuf)) {
+               if (!(flag & LN_SYMLINK) && stat(*argv, &statbuf)) {
                        bb_perror_msg(*argv);
                        status = EXIT_FAILURE;
                        free(src_name);

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