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2018 Sep 17
2
Very weird problem with handling symbolic links
Hi everyone, I just discovered something very weird on a vanilla CentOS 7 installation. If I create a link to /tmp as a normal user, it looks like I can't remove this link anymore. Here's what this looks like: $ mkdir test_link $ cd test_link/ $ ln -s /tmp/ link_to_tmp $ ls -l total 0 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 kikinovak kikinovak 5 Sep 17 10:56 link_to_tmp -> /tmp/ $ rm link_to_tmp/ rm: cannot remove ?link_to_tmp/?: Is a directory $ rmdir link_to_tmp/ rmdir: failed to remove ?link_to_tmp/?: Not a directory I tried the same thing on a different box, running...