Date: 25 Jun 2000 05:53:45 +0200 From: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@no-spam.citeweb.net> To: fs@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: hacker@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: strange symlink behaviour if / terminated Message-ID: <em5mxvp1.fsf@pc166.gits.fr>
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preliminaries :
# mkdir -p /path/name /path/to
# touch /path/name/file
# ln -s /path/name /path/to/symlink
# mv /path/to/symlink/ /other/location
^ note the terminating slash.
move the target of the symlink instead of the symlink itself.
same results w/ rm -r and cp -r.
slightly different results w/ rm and cp.
# rm /path/to/symlink/
rm: /path/to/symlink/: is a directory
# cp /path/to/symlink/ /other/location
cp: /path/to/symlink/ is a directory (not copied).
# rmdir -p /path/to/symlink/
remove the symlink itself instead of do nothing, such as in :
# rmdir -p /path/to/symlink
rmdir: /path/to/symlink: Not a directory
also, strange output from rmdir -p :
# mkdir -p /path/name
# rmdir -p /path/name
rmdir: : No such file or directory
# mkdir -p /path/name/
# rmdir -p /path/name/
rmdir: /path/name: No such file or directory
I don't have done these tests under some other OSes (HP-UX, Solaris, IRIX)
yet, but I'm sure that they do nothing or they work on symlink itself instead
of the target.
Cyrille.
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