Does its job, but complains about an error and exits with an error code. --- $ mkdir dir; touch src; ln -s --target-dir=dir ../src; echo $?; ls -l src dir ln: `dir/.\': cannot overwrite directory 1 -rw-r--r-- 1 imz imz 0 Окт 8 00:36 src dir: итого 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 imz imz 6 Окт 8 00:36 src -> ../src [<a href="mailto:imz@basalt" target="_new">imz@basalt</a> tmp]$ rpm -qf /bin/ln coreutils-4.5.1-alt2 [<a href="mailto:imz@basalt" target="_new">imz@basalt</a> tmp]$ --- Putting \"dir\" as the last argument makes it work. Similar cp --target-dir=dir src works fine. This: cp --symbolic-link --target-dir=dir \"$(pwd)\"/src also works; can be regarded as a workaround.
Fixed in coreutils-4.5.2-alt1 (patch for coreutils-4.5.2 attached).
Merged into coreutils-4.5.3
