Finder fails to open links to local files

Hi all,

I posted this in Discussions forum and they suggested I place question / bug here since they only go up to Monterey. I'm having trouble with symbolic links in Finder. Here is a hopefully reproducible test case.

I placed a 'bar' file (bar-up, bar-here, bar-down) in current and adjacent directories, then created three 'foo' symbolic links in current folder to see what Ventura Finder does:

~/tmp/lnTests $ find .. -name 'bar*' -ls

-rw-r--r-- Mar 20 08:45 ../lnTests/subdir/bar-down.txt

-rw-r--r-- Mar 20 08:45 ../lnTests/bar-here.txt

-rw-r--r-- Mar 20 08:46 ../bar-up.txt

~/tmp/lnTests $ find .. -name 'foo*' -ls

lrwxr-xr-x Mar 20 08:46 ../lnTests/foo-here.txt -> bar-here.txt

lrwxr-xr-x Mar 20 08:47 ../lnTests/foo-up.txt -> ../bar-up.txt

lrwxr-xr-x Mar 20 08:46 ../lnTests/foo-down.txt -> subdir/bar-down.txt

Double-clicking the 'foo' links (aliases) in Finder results in the following:

* foo-here and foo-down fail with a Choose Application dialog;

* foo-up successfully opens bar-up.txt.

This is a bug, yes?

Regards,

Dave