From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 10 5:20:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA89237B401 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 05:20:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post-21.mail.nl.demon.net (post-21.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4835D43E9C for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 05:20:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cls@raggedclown.net) Received: from [212.238.197.102] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-21.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17zcIo-000M29-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:20:30 +0000 Received: from willow.raggedclown.net (willow.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.10]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [oz]) with ESMTP id EA7C748331 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 14:20:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: by willow.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [willow], from userid 1009) id E6423225CF; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 14:20:28 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 14:20:28 +0200 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help with ln "linking" Please! [attn manpage authors!] Message-ID: <20021010122028.GB82288@raggedclown.net> References: <20021009220536.F36987-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> <20021010111915.GR21391@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021010111915.GR21391@hades.hell.gr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mmmm..hasn't this discussion on symbolic links gone on just a bit too long. I suggest someone who is disatisfied with the description of them send in a PR, as for their representation in ls listings then that is in line with UNIX systems in general. Their is no reason why people cannot write a wrapper script to order the arguments the way they like ! I agree it is unfortunate that symlinks got made an option to "ln" since they bear about as much relationship to hard links as a donkey does to a cigarrette. But that's UNIX for you :) -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands Email: cls@raggedclown.net Tel : +31 (0)10 4764595 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message