Re: ln -s broken on 2.4.5

Alan Cox
2001-05-30T21:51:39Z

> The problem is only there if you specify a directory for the linked to
> component.
>
> [marcus@wine /tmp]$ strace -f ln -s fupp/berk xxx
> execve("/bin/ln", ["ln", "-s", "fupp/berk", "xxx"], [/* 39 vars */]) = 0
> ... ld stuff ... locale stuff ...

bash-2.04$ ln -s foo/frob eep
bash-2.04$ ls -l eep
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alan users 8 May 30 22:19 eep -> foo/frob