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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...