Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 09:21:24 -0600 (MDT) From: Mark.OLear@Colorado.EDU To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/1565: Moving a file to it's link completely removes file Message-ID: <199609041521.JAA01777@tele80.Colorado.EDU> Resent-Message-ID: <199609041530.IAA17152@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 1565
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: Moving a file to it's link completely removes file
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Sep 4 08:30:01 PDT 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Mark O'Lear
>Organization:
>Release: FreeBSD 2.2-960501-SNAP i386
>Environment:
FreeBSD 2.2-960501-SNAP i386
and
FreeBSD 2.2-960801-SNAP i386
>Description:
If /tmp/aaa is a link to /usr/tmp/aaa
(lrwxrwxrwt 1 bin bin 12 Aug 21 16:53 /tmp/aaa@ -> /usr/tmp/aaa)
doing a 'mv /usr/tmp/aaa /tmp/aaa' removes /usr/tmp/aaa,
but /tmp/aaa is still a link to /usr/tmp/aaa.
>How-To-Repeat:
tele80> ls -lF /tmp/aaa
lrwxrwxrwt 1 bin bin 12 Aug 21 16:53 /tmp/aaa@ -> /usr/tmp/aaa
tele80> ls -lF /usr/tmp/aaa
-rw------- 1 olear wheel 48 Aug 21 16:59 /usr/tmp/aaa
tele80> mv /usr/tmp/aaa /tmp/aaa
tele80> ls -lF /tmp/aaa
lrwxrwxrwt 1 bin bin 12 Aug 21 16:53 /tmp/aaa@ -> /usr/tmp/aaa
tele80> cat /tmp/aaa
cat: /tmp/aaa: No such file or directory
tele80> ls -lF /usr/tmp/aaa
ls: /usr/tmp/aaa: No such file or directory
>Fix:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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