On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 10:46:29AM +0100, cedric borgese wrote:
Package: coreutils
Version: 8.32-4+b1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: cedric.borg...@gmail.com
Dear Maintainer,
trying to update a symbolic link from a nfs share silently fails.
if the symbolic link /some/nfs/share/tmp already exists, the command
ln -sv /tmp /some/nfs/share/tmp
fails as expected with an error message, but the command
ln -svf /tmp /some/nfs/share/tmp
fails and print an output as if the link was succesfully updated
I can't duplicate on nfs. I'd guess there's something on the NFS server
preventing the command from succeeding but I can't be more specific
without more information. What should actually be happening is that ln
makes an attempt to create the symlink, that fails, then it makes the
link with a random name and renames it into place. If you run your
command with strace you can see the exact system calls.
