From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 18:41:36 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (do_link): Allow creation of a hard link to a dangling
X-Git-Tag: TEXTUTILS-1_22h~44
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4872440d7a09f770322b9691dc8313833f37d330;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(do_link): Allow creation of a hard link to a dangling
symlink.  Reported by Alexey Solovyov:
---

diff --git a/src/ln.c b/src/ln.c
index 093b9e6f43..e60cc6e74e 100644
--- a/src/ln.c
+++ b/src/ln.c
@@ -174,8 +174,14 @@ do_link (const char *source, const char *dest)
     {
       if (stat (source, &source_stats) != 0)
 	{
-	  error (0, errno, "%s", source);
-	  return 1;
+	  /* This still could be a legitimate request:
+	     if SOURCE is a dangling symlink.  */
+	  if (errno != ENOENT
+	      || lstat (source, &source_stats) != 0)
+	    {
+	      error (0, errno, "%s", source);
+	      return 1;
+	    }
 	}
       if (!hard_dir_link && S_ISDIR (source_stats.st_mode))
 	{