Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:50:09 +0100 From: Ceri <ceri@techsupport.co.uk> To: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/7265: A warning flag is added to ln(1). Message-ID: <20010711115009.A24243@cartman.techsupport.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200107110940.f6B9e2A46673@freefall.freebsd.org>; from joelh@gnu.org on Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 02:40:02AM -0700 References: <200107110940.f6B9e2A46673@freefall.freebsd.org>
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I would have thought that if _any_ action was to be taken then the patch to ln(1) would have been the right direction to go, as opposed to having shells emit different error messages than they have before (and call readlink(2) on every directory and file just in case they are symlinks). Perhaps it would be best to treat the situation described in the ``How To Repeat'' section as a suggestion to go to bed. # cd /sys /sys: Symlink points to directory that does not exist. would freak me out a whole lot more at 4am than : # cd /sys /sys: No such file or directory. because I _expect_ the second one to happen. I am amazed that this PR hasn't been closed under ``pilot error'' yet. Ceri -- I probably wouldn't like you. Really. I really probably wouldn't like you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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