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Subject: Re: bin/7298: Improvements to ln(1).
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Synopsis: Improvements to ln(1).

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: schweikh
State-Changed-When: Sun Jun 10 07:29:16 PDT 2001
State-Changed-Why: 
Absolute symlinks are almost often evil (e.g. when accessed
on a remote system via NFS), so -a is something we should not
encourage. For relative symlinks ln(1) works when used with
proper args and cwd so the need for -r IMHO isn't strong
enough to add an option that would make us diverge from the
other BSDs. But thanks anyway for the suggestion!

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