ln: accept non-utf8 source names in target-dir modes#11403
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Nice! I guess we can also remove unused |
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* tests/ln/non-utf8-src.sh: New test ensuring ln handles source filenames containing non-UTF-8 bytes when linking into a target directory, for both hard links and symbolic links with -t. * tests/local.mk: Register the new test. uutils/coreutils#11403
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* tests/ln/non-utf8-src.sh: New test ensuring ln handles source filenames containing non-UTF-8 bytes when linking into a target directory, for both hard links and symbolic links with -t. * tests/local.mk: Register the new test. uutils/coreutils#11403 coreutils/coreutils#240
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When given target-directory forms like
ln SOURCE... DIRECTORY, uutilslnrejects source paths with non-UTF-8 filename bytes, while GNUlnaccepts them and creates the link in the destination directory.Reproduction Steps
Impact
GNU compatibility is broken for byte-oriented filenames on Unix filesystems.