bug#79445: `ln -s` should raise a warning about pwd-relative vs symlink-location-relative targets

Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs
Organization UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On 2025-09-13 03:16, Chris wrote:
> It seems to me it should be easy enough to alert users to this gotcha by
> printing a warning to stderr when creating a symlink

I dunno, that gotcha has been present in Unix and Linux for nearly 50 
years now, and lots of people are used to the gotcha would plausibly 
object to a warning.
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