Bug#789610: symlink(2) refuses to let me create an empty symlink

2021-05-08 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi, On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 01:49:23AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Control: reassign -1 src:linux 3.2.68-1+deb7u1 > Control: tag -1 upstream > > On Mon, 2015-06-22 at 17:10 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Package: linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 > > Version: 3.2.68-1+deb7u1 > > > > I may be tilting at

Bug#789610: symlink(2) refuses to let me create an empty symlink

2015-06-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: reassign -1 src:linux 3.2.68-1+deb7u1 Control: tag -1 upstream On Mon, 2015-06-22 at 17:10 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Package: linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 > Version: 3.2.68-1+deb7u1 > > I may be tilting at windmills here, but I think >ln -s '' foo > should work, rather than failing wi

Bug#789610: symlink(2) refuses to let me create an empty symlink

2015-06-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 Version: 3.2.68-1+deb7u1 I may be tilting at windmills here, but I think ln -s '' foo should work, rather than failing with ENOENT. The fact that it didn't work inconvenienced me while I was trying to write a test case for some other software. I would have b