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Date:      Mon, 12 Jun 2017 15:31:12 +0000
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To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 219943] The '-F' option of ln(1) does not work as expected.
Message-ID:  <bug-219943-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>

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            Bug ID: 219943
           Summary: The '-F' option of ln(1) does not work as expected.
           Product: Base System
           Version: CURRENT
          Hardware: amd64
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Many People
          Priority: ---
         Component: bin
          Assignee: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: shivanshrai84@gmail.com
                CC: jilles@FreeBSD.org

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Log file generated from executing `truss -o ln.log ln -sF A B`

I was trying to make a kyua based test for the '-F' option of ln(1).

Steps to reproduce -
This was the command which I ran successfully -
  ```
  mkdir A B
  truss -o ln.log ln -sF A B  # '-f' is assumed to be present by default
  ```

Actual results -
It so happens here that even though the target directory B exists, neither
unlink nor rmdir is being called [ideally rmdir should be called as specifi=
ed
in src/bin/ln/ln.c (line 307)].
The output of the above command is that B contains a broken symbolic link A=
 to
A.
I used truss(1) to trace the system calls when executing the above command =
and
have attached the log file. As it can be seen in the log file, the rmdir sy=
stem
call is missing.

Expected results -
I think the expected behavior should be that directory B is deleted and a n=
ew
symbolic link B is made to A.

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