From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 10 7:42:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBC2B37B405 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 07:42:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 28F565309; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 16:42:38 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Bogdan TARU Cc: Subject: Re: 'rm' incompatibility with Posix.2 References: <20020410162300.N79910-100000@fw.cgn.icom> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 10 Apr 2002 16:42:38 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20020410162300.N79910-100000@fw.cgn.icom> Message-ID: Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bogdan TARU writes: > On 10 Apr 2002, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > In my humble opinion, Solaris (and every other *nix) is broken in this > > respect, and *BSD is correct. > Except for OpenBDS. No NetBDS machine available, maybe some of you could > try it on one as well? I don't know of any "OpenBDS" or "NetBDS", but NetBSD has the same semantics as FreeBSD: des@rc4 ~% mkdir foo des@rc4 ~% touch foo/bar des@rc4 ~% ln -s foo baz des@rc4 ~% ls -l baz lrwxr-xr-x 1 des des 3 Apr 10 16:41 baz@ -> foo des@rc4 ~% ls -l baz/ total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 des des 0 Apr 10 16:41 bar DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message