Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:02:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Steve Follmer <sffollmer@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: i386/39584: ln -f fails to unlink Message-ID: <200206201902.g5KJ2fZt065993@www.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 39584
>Category: i386
>Synopsis: ln -f fails to unlink
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Jun 20 12:10:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Steve Follmer
>Release: 4.5-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD edge1.stevefollmer.com 4.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE #0: Mon Mar 25 18:09:02 PST 2002 root@edge1.stevefollmer.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/EDGE1 i386
>Description:
ln -f is supposed to force the unlink of the target directory.
It fails to do so and also reports no error.
man ln claims...
-f If the target file already exists, then unlink it so that the link may occur.
>How-To-Repeat:
edge1# mkdir d1
edge1# mkdir d2
edge1# ln -s l1 d1
edge1# ls -l
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 20 11:13 d1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 20 11:12 d2
edge1# ln -s d1 l1
edge1# ls -l
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 20 11:13 d1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 20 11:12 d2
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2 Jun 20 11:13 l1 -> d1
edge1# ln -fs d2 l1
edge1# ls -l
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 20 11:13 d1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 20 11:12 d2
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2 Jun 20 11:13 l1 -> d1
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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