2.0.33: "ln -sf" reacts strange on directories

Ulrich Windl (ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de)
Wed, 15 Apr 1998 09:16:39 +0200


Hello everybody,

I have found one odd thing about 2.0.33:

If I do "ln -sf" for an existing symbolic link, it depends where the
link points to.

For a file it works as expected (by me).
For a directory, the modification time of the link's target (the
directory) changes. This is what I do not expect.

Sorry, if it's not a kernel problem, but for me it seems to be one.

(GNU fileutils 3.16, libc-5.4.44, kernel 2.0.33, (bash 2.01))

Regards,
Ulrich
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