Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 18:28:35 +0200 (MET DST) From: Robert Eckardt <roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> To: Mark.Olear@Colorado.EDU (Mark O'Lear) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bug or feature? Moving file to its link deletes the file. Message-ID: <199608221628.SAA14991@gluon.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> In-Reply-To: <321B967D.1A00@Colorado.EDU> from "Mark O'Lear" at Aug 21, 96 05:06:37 pm
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What system/version are you using ?
I checked it on 2.1-R and it works as expected:
18:00 ghost: /usr/home/re/tmp 0% echo testfile >/usr/tmp/test
18:00 ghost: /usr/home/re/tmp 0% ln -s /usr/tmp/test test
18:01 ghost: /usr/home/re/tmp 0% ll test
lrwx------ 1 re work 13 Aug 22 18:01 test -> /usr/tmp/test
18:01 ghost: /usr/home/re/tmp 0% ll /usr/tmp/test
-rw-r----- 1 re wheel 9 Aug 22 18:01 /usr/tmp/test
18:01 ghost: /usr/home/re/tmp 0% mv /usr/tmp/test test
18:01 ghost: /usr/home/re/tmp 0% ll /usr/tmp/test
ls: /usr/tmp/test: No such file or directory
18:01 ghost: /usr/home/re/tmp 0% ll test
-rw-r----- 1 re wheel 9 Aug 22 18:01 test
>
> Is this a bug or a feature?
>
> 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
>
> /usr/tmp/aaa was a real file with data until I tried to
> move it to /tmp/aaa which was a link to /usr/tmp/aaa.
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