From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 5 16:25:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA19649 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 16:25:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from atrophy.dyn.ml.org (pissed@ppp135118.usmo.com [206.100.135.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA19480 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 16:24:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vile@atrophy.dyn.ml.org) Received: (from vile@localhost) by atrophy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA10438; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 17:37:01 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from vile) Message-ID: <19980405173659.47190@atrophy.dyn.ml.org> Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 17:36:59 -0500 From: Anber Rybar To: Jonathan Chen Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ln -s References: <19980405161205.17107@atrophy.dyn.ml.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Jonathan Chen on Mon, Apr 06, 1998 at 10:49:27AM +1200 Organization: The Yalta Underground X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake Jonathan Chen (jonc@pinnacle.co.nz): > 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: Yes, I discovered my err shortly after sending that message. It was that when running ls and rm I was using bash-2.0 filename completion. This, unfortunatly, placed a / at the end of the soft link, forcing it to be handled as a directory. -- ( "Lay my hands on heaven and the moon and the sun and the stars." -Trent R. ) ( vile@usmo.com * Prime Minister, The Yalta Underground * I am sanctified ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message