Re: No action with forced symbolic link if link already exists

[Jim Meyering]

"Till Halbach" <address@hidden> wrote:
> Assume the link "link" already exists and points to "other_file". Then
> "ln -sf new_file link" won't trigger any action at all. No error message
> is uttered either.
> This is a regression, as it worked before (i.e., the old link was
> overwritten).
> Unfortunately I cannot tell exactly where it was introduced.

Thanks for the report, but I can't reproduce that, unless other_file
is a directory.  Please tell us the precise commands you used and show
what happens.