bug#34876: [bug-coreutils] ln 8.31 on Solaris 10 is partially broken

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

There appears to be a problem on Solaris 10 (and possibly related
Solaris family members) with ln in coreutils-8.31:

With the new ln:

> rm foo bar ; touch foo bar && ls -ld foo bar && ln -f foo bar
rm: cannot remove 'foo': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove 'bar': No such file or directory
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bowman sysstaff 0 Mar 15 15:55 bar
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bowman sysstaff 0 Mar 15 15:55 foo
ln: failed to access 'bar/foo': Not a directory

The correct behavior should be:

> rm foo bar ; touch foo bar && ls -ld foo bar && ln -f foo bar ; ls -ld foo bar
rm: cannot remove 'foo': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove 'bar': No such file or directory
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bowman sysstaff 0 Mar 15 15:57 bar
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bowman sysstaff 0 Mar 15 15:57 foo
-rw-rw-r-- 2 bowman sysstaff 0 Mar 15 15:57 bar
-rw-rw-r-- 2 bowman sysstaff 0 Mar 15 15:57 foo

The same problem may be responsible for this failure in today's
build of gawk-4.2.64:

        make[2]: Entering directory '/local/build/cc/gawk-4.2.64/awklib'
        rm -f pwcat.c
        ln -s ./eg/lib/pwcat.c .
        ln: failed to create symbolic link '.': Invalid argument

When I reset PATH to have /bin in front, the ln command succeeded.

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