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bug#10686: mv: moving hardlink of a softlink to the softlink does nothin
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Bernhard Voelker |
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bug#10686: mv: moving hardlink of a softlink to the softlink does nothing |
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Date: |
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:43:25 +0100 |
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On 02/01/2012 09:21 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> $ touch f && ln -s f l && ln l s && ls -ogi
> total 0
> 6444 -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Feb 1 08:52 f
> 6462 lrwxrwxrwx 2 1 Feb 1 08:52 l -> f
> 6462 lrwxrwxrwx 2 1 Feb 1 08:52 s -> f
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> Trying to mv the hardlink over the symlink seems to succeed:
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> $ ~/git/coreutils/src/mv s l
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> ... but the name 's' was not unlinked:
...
> That behaviour didn't change at least since version 7.1
> (on openSuSE-11.3), but back in the earlier days in 5.93
> (SLES-10.3), 's' disappeared as expected:
Hmm, looks like commit
f1d1ee91217d08527c6bf7682987339e38116268
introduced this in 2006.
Have a nice day,
Berny