From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 10 13:26:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA04813 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 13:26:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from terra.Sarnoff.COM (terra.sarnoff.com [130.33.11.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA04780 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 13:26:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rminnich@Sarnoff.COM) Received: (from rminnich@localhost) by terra.Sarnoff.COM (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA27244; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 16:24:53 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 16:24:52 -0400 (EDT) From: "Ron G. Minnich" X-Sender: rminnich@terra To: Shigio Yamaguchi cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Improvemnet of ln(1). In-Reply-To: <199807101738.KAA12014@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 11 Jul 1998, Shigio Yamaguchi wrote: > Ln(1) with -s option makes illegal symbolic link in some case. > Two options are added. Both of them is valid only with -s option. > -r option: make right and relative symbolic link > -a option: make right and absolute symbolic link >Is it improvement I think so. > Is it useful? It would save people some trouble. Actually, why not just have ln warn of questionable links in any case. > Is there any problem made by this solution? Added features are always a concern, but something like this does seem reasonable. ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message