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From: mark thompson <thompson@tgsoft.com>
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Subject: ln -s -f does unlink of dir
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On my 2.1.6 system i had a directory /usr/src/sys. Elsewhere in the
filesystem i stupidly did a ln -s -f /u/FreeBSD/src/* /usr/src. To my
immense surprise, ln unlinked /usr/src/sys! fsck'ing /usr proved that
this was true.

I suppose everybody but me knew about that, though?

-mark