link(2) behaviour when creating a hardlink to a symlink

Jordan Gordeev jgordeev at dir.bg
Wed Jun 11 13:29:54 PDT 2008


Cvs2svn, a package available in pkgsrc, doesn't extract successfully on 
DragonFly.
During extraction, a link() syscall is made to create a hardlink to a 
symlink that points to a non-existent file. The link() call fails with 
ENOENT.
I'd like to know if you think that behaviour to be a bug.





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