Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 22:54:35 +0200 (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Westeurop=E4ische_Sommerzeit?=) From: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at> To: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at> Cc: "Tim J. Robbins" <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: standards/41576: POSIX compliance of ln(1) Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.44.0209192251530.652-100000@korben> In-Reply-To: <20020819210645.L310-100000@leelou.in.tern>
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On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Lukas Ertl wrote: > 1) $ ln -sf bar bla > > and > > 2) $ ln -sf bar bla/ > > The first version should replace the symlink, the second one should creat= e > a new symlink in the already referenced directory (as it currently happen= s > on FreeBSD). ln on AIX does exactly that. Of course, AIX could be > completely broken (as usual :-), but this is how I read the standard. Has someone of you thought about this one since then? I have taken a look at the source code and AFAICS if we implement it like this we would have to throw out the -h option. I don't know if this would break a lot of things and if it would be a good idea. What do you think about it? regards, le --=20 Lukas Ertl eMail: l.ertl@univie.ac.at UNIX-Systemadministrator Tel.: (+43 1) 4277-14073 Zentraler Informatikdienst (ZID) Fax.: (+43 1) 4277-9140 der Universit=E4t Wien http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~le/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message
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