Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 11:42:51 +1000 From: Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au> To: gs_stoller@juno.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The 'ln -s' command Message-ID: <61DC5A82-3742-4FB0-9B7E-9655F4E4FC60@brooknet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20060523.182218.19235.1026225@webmail29.nyc.untd.com> References: <20060523.182218.19235.1026225@webmail29.nyc.untd.com>
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On 24/05/2006, at 1:21 AM, gs_stoller@juno.com wrote: > I tried the 'ln -s' command in bothe 4.3 & 4.7 in a situation > where it should fail and it did, but it still had a return/exit > code of 0 , I think it should have been nonzero. I tried 'ln -s > a b' where the file b existed (and was a directory) and I wanted > to create the file named a also pointing to it. The correct form > was 'ln -s b a'. See the synopsis in the manpage for 'ln'. It exited nonzero because you successfully put a symlink under the directory 'b', pointing to 'a'. oddie:~ sam$ mkdir b oddie:~ sam$ ln -s a b oddie:~ sam$ ls -l b total 8 lrwxr-xr-x 1 sam sam 1 May 24 11:42 a -> a
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