Re: Bug in ln

Richard Dawe <[email protected]> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 19:35:54 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.fileutils.bugs
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hello.

Marco Benini wrote:
[snip]
> Try the following command sequence:
> 
> cd /tmp
> touch foo
> ln -s /etc/passwd foo
> ls -l
> 
> You get two files with the same name in the same directory.
> 
> BTW, ln has version number 4.1.9. I'm using Linux 2.4.18-19.8.0, and tcsh
> 6.12.00.
[snip]

What does "ls -l" display? What type of file are the "foo"s?

Thanks, regards,

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