Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:10:19 +1100 From: Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au> To: Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Subject: Re: test(1) unexpected result (to me) Message-ID: <41E478FB.1060608@brooknet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <1105491274.67086.2.camel@server.mcneil.com> References: <41E47226.8050001@elischer.org> <1105491274.67086.2.camel@server.mcneil.com>
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Sean McNeil wrote: >On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 16:41 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > >># ls -l /sys >>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 11 Sep 4 22:03 /sys -> usr/src/sys >># if [ /sys -ef /usr/src/sys ] >> > then >> > echo same >> > else >> > echo no >> > fi >>no >> >> >>I would have expected the result "same" >> >>comments? >> >> > >By "same file" they mean each references the same inode. Since this is >a symlink, the files do not refer to the same file. > >You can see that if it were a hard link the result would be "same" >echoed. > test -ef uses stat() to compare the inodes. stat returns the inode of the pointed-to file, not the link.
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