Bug#789610: symlink(2) refuses to let me create an empty symlink

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 01:49:23AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 src:linux 3.2.68-1+deb7u1
> Control: tag -1 upstream
> 
> On Mon, 2015-06-22 at 17:10 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Package: linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64
> > Version: 3.2.68-1+deb7u1
> > 
> > I may be tilting at windmills here, but I think
> >    ln -s '' foo
> > should work, rather than failing with ENOENT.
> > 
> > The fact that it didn't work inconvenienced me while I was trying to
> > write a test case for some other software.  I would have been happy
> > for the link to be created and then be un-dereferenceable.
> > 
> > I would, in fact, have been happy with either the traditional BSD
> > behaviour (create the link, treat it as a link to "."), or the
> > traditional SysV behaviour (create the link, dereferencing gives
> > ENOENT).
> > 
> > See also:
> > 
> >   https://lwn.net/Articles/551224/
> >   https://lwn.net/Articles/551228/
> > 
> > Do you think you could try to use any good connections you have to get
> > this fixed ?
> 
> Don't hold your breath.

Given this, is if at all to be handled upstream, I think we should
close this report by now. I do not see likely that it will ongoing.

Regards,
Salvatore