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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | bootstrap.conf | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tests/Makefile.am | 1 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | tests/ln/slash-decorated-nonexistent-dest | 34 |
4 files changed, 44 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -45,6 +45,14 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- (i.e., not inotify-based) implementation. [bug introduced in coreutils-7.5] +** Portability + + ln, link: link f z/ would mistakenly succeed on Solaris 10, given an + existing file, f, and nothing named "z". ln -T f z/ has the same problem. + Each would mistakenly create "z" as a link to "f". Now, even on such a + system, each command reports the error, e.g., + link: cannot create link `z/' to `f': Not a directory + ** New features cp --reflink accepts a new "auto" parameter which falls back to diff --git a/bootstrap.conf b/bootstrap.conf index 7ec4b3b47..c2bf753cc 100644 --- a/bootstrap.conf +++ b/bootstrap.conf @@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ gnulib_modules=" lchown lib-ignore linebuffer + link link-follow long-options lstat diff --git a/tests/Makefile.am b/tests/Makefile.am index 1de53bf03..7a20e0c2c 100644 --- a/tests/Makefile.am +++ b/tests/Makefile.am @@ -345,6 +345,7 @@ TESTS = \ ln/hard-backup \ ln/misc \ ln/sf-1 \ + ln/slash-decorated-nonexistent-dest \ ln/target-1 \ ls/abmon-align \ ls/color-clear-to-eol \ diff --git a/tests/ln/slash-decorated-nonexistent-dest b/tests/ln/slash-decorated-nonexistent-dest new file mode 100755 index 000000000..afbbd060d --- /dev/null +++ b/tests/ln/slash-decorated-nonexistent-dest @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +#!/bin/sh +# ensure that touch f; ln -T f no-such-file/ does not mistakenly succeed + +# Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + +# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify +# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or +# (at your option) any later version. + +# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +# GNU General Public License for more details. + +# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. + +if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then + set -x + ln --version +fi + +. $srcdir/test-lib.sh + +touch f || framework_failure + +fail=0 + +# Before coreutils-7.6, this would succeed on Solaris 10 +ln -T f no-such-file/ && fail=1 +test -e no-such-file && fail=1 + +Exit $fail |