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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To: Tim Robbins <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au>
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Subject: Re: bin/35201: link and unlink are not SUSv2-compliant as the manpage states 
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On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 16:18:52 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:

> The whole point of these alternatives to ln/rm is that they have a
> simple, optionless interface.  :-(

Bleh, what an entirely useless response. :-)

I should have gone on to say...

However, standards conformance is probably important, even here.  If
scripts expect 'link -- foo bar' to work, and yet it breaks in FreeBSD,
that'll be bad.

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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