[maintainer] coreutils-9.0-1: "ln -fs" bug

[Marco Atzeri]

On 09/02/2025 06:40, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> Noticed today, not sure it is new nor that is Cygwin specific.
> 
> It can create unrequested circular links, to replicate:
> 
> $ cd /tmp
> $ mkdir dirA
> $ mkdir dirB
> $ cd dirA
> $ ln -fs /tmp/dirB dirB
> $ ls -l
> total 0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 marco marco 9 Feb  9 06:33 dirB -> /tmp/dirB
> $ cd dirB
> $ ls -l
> total 0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 marco marco 7 Feb  9 06:25 dirB -> ../dirB
> 
> I built nothing in dirB, but now there is inside a circular link to itself.
> 
> 
> It only happens with "ln -fs" not with "ln -s"

the test package

  coreutils    9.5-1

has note this issue

Regards
Marco