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On 2025-02-09 11:51, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote:
> 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

Thanks very much Marco,

Glad to hear - that was quick!

I will have to dig around the changes to see what was fixed.

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