Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3767 mails)

[Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Observe the following:

~> mkdir a
~> mkdir b
~> touch a/hello
~> chmod 0444 a/hello
~> ls -l a/
total 0
-r--r--r--  1 samjnaa users 0 2006-02-18 14:52 hello
~> cd b
~/b> ln -s ../a/hello
~/b> ls -l
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 samjnaa users 10 2006-02-18 14:53 hello -> ../a/hello
~/b> ls -l > list
~/b> ls -l
total 4
lrwxrwxrwx  1 samjnaa users  10 2006-02-18 14:53 hello -> ../a/hello
-rw-r--r--  1 samjnaa users 129 2006-02-18 14:53 list
~/b> cp list hello
cp: cannot create regular file `hello': Permission denied
~/b> sudo cp list hello
Password:
~/b> ls -l ~/a/
total 4
-r--r--r--  1 samjnaa users 129 2006-02-18 14:53 hello
~/b>

What is surprising here is that while I expected the cp operation to replace 
the link with the text file, it replaced the *target of the link*. Is this 
expected behaviour? In Konqueror, if I try to copy a regular file to a 
directory containing a symbolic link with the same name as the file, it asks 
me if I want to overwrite and if I say yes it overwrites the link, not the 
target of the link.

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