I am facing a strange behavior when I create the same symbolic twice. The followins is what the situation ..

[root@bglr1 tmp]# mkdir -p /tmp/tmp/{1,2}
[root@bglr1 tmp]# ln -s /tmp/tmp/2 /tmp/tmp/1/2
[root@bglr1 tmp]# ls -lR /tmp/tmp
.:
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 24 20:34 1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 24 20:33 2

./1:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Dec 24 20:34 2 -> /tmp/tmp/2

./2:
total 0
[root@bglr1 tmp]# ln -s /tmp/tmp/2 /tmp/tmp/1/2
[root@bglr1 tmp]# ls -lR /tmp/tmp
.:
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 24 20:34 1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 24 20:34 2

./1:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Dec 24 20:34 2 -> /tmp/tmp/2

./2:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Dec 24 20:34 2 -> /tmp/tmp/2
[root@bglr1 tmp]#

here what happens is, when I execute link command once, every thing is fine. but when I execute once again. It creats a link in wrong place. Now I can see two links as follows

/tmp/tmp/1/2->/tmp/tmp/2
/tmp/tmp/2/2->/tmp/tmp/2

It may be a correct behavior. But I am not able to related the concepts to this :-)