Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 10:49:27 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> To: Anber Rybar <vile@usmo.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ln -s Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980406104604.6233A-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <19980405161205.17107@atrophy.dyn.ml.org>
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On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Anber Rybar wrote:
[snip]
> The copy of ln that ships with FreeBSD will make a soft link to a directory a
> hard link. I want to know why.
No it doesn't; as the following demonstrates most clearly:
10:44am> uname -a
FreeBSD kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz 2.2.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE #0: Mon Feb 2 11:47:50 NZDT 1998 root@kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz:/usr/src/sys/compile/KAKAPO i386
10:44am> mkdir a
10:44am> ls
a/
10:44am> ln a b
ln: a: Is a directory
10:44am> ln -s a b
10:44am> ls
a/ b>
10:44am> rm b
10:44am> ls
a/
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
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