Re: link(2) on a symlink to a directory fails

[Rhialto <rhialto%falu.nl@localhost>]

On Fri 29 Jul 2011 at 08:12:38 +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> I was trying to track down a bug in glusterfs on NetBSD and encountered a
> behavior difference between NetBSD and Linux. NetBSD will refuse (EPERM)
> to link(2) on a symlink to a directory, while Linux is fine with such
> an operation (but fails to link(2) directly to a directory, just like
> NetBSD). 

It seems that if you ln to a symlink, you actually link to the
destination of it. There is a -h option for not following symlinks but
it is for the target file, not the source file.

I'm not sure this makes sense, and I seem to recall vaguely that this
was changed in the last few years.

-Olaf.
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