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diff --git a/tests/ln/relative.sh b/tests/ln/relative.sh
index 0418b8a0..5cf280a5 100755
--- a/tests/ln/relative.sh
+++ b/tests/ln/relative.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
#!/bin/sh
# Test "ln --relative".
-# Copyright (C) 2012-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2012-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -29,4 +29,25 @@ test $(readlink usr/bin/foo) = '../lib/foo/foo' || fail=1
ln -sr usr/bin/foo usr/lib/foo/link-to-foo
test $(readlink usr/lib/foo/link-to-foo) = 'foo' || fail=1
+# Correctly update an existing link, which was broken in <= 8.21
+ln -s dir1/dir2/f existing_link
+ln -srf here existing_link
+test $(readlink existing_link) = 'here' || fail=1
+
+# Demonstrate resolved symlinks used to generate relative links
+# so here, 'web/latest' will not be linked to the intermediate 'latest' link.
+# You'd probably want to use realpath(1) in conjunction
+# with ln(1) without --relative to give greater control.
+ln -s release1 alpha
+ln -s release2 beta
+ln -s beta latest
+mkdir web
+ln -sr latest web/latest
+test $(readlink web/latest) = '../release2' || fail=1
+
+# Expect this to fail with exit status 1, or to succeed quietly (freebsd).
+# Prior to coreutils-8.23, it would segfault.
+ln -sr '' F
+case $? in [01]) ;; *) fail=1;; esac
+
Exit $fail