Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 05:20:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at> To: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: standards/41576: POSIX compliance of ln(1) Message-ID: <200208121220.g7CCK759008940@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR standards/41576; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at> To: Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: standards/41576: POSIX compliance of ln(1) Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 14:15:56 +0200 (CEST) On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Tim Robbins wrote: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 01:05:10PM +0200, Lukas Ertl wrote: > > > cd /tmp > > mkdir foo bar > > ln -s foo bla ### now /tmp/bla symlinks to /tmp/foo > > ln -sf bar bla ### replace /tmp/bla to point to /tmp/bar, doesn't wo= rk > > Do you know of any systems this `works' on? /bin/ln and /usr/xpg4/bin/ln > don't behave this way on Solaris, either. On AIX it does. regards, le --=20 Lukas Ertl eMail: l.ertl@univie.ac.at UNIX-Systemadministrator Tel.: (+43 1) 4277-14073 Zentraler Informatikdienst (ZID) Fax.: (+43 1) 4277-9140 der Universit=E4t Wien http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~le/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message
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