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: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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