rln, a potential new core util

[David Laurence Emerson]

Hey all you wonderful GNU folks,

I've written a utility that may be appropriate for future inclusion in the gnu 
core utils.  It assists in the creation of relative-path symlinks, enabling 
tab-completion in a number of cases where that fails for ln -s, and 
preventing the creation of dead links.

For now, the tool is called "rln" ("r" is for relative).  I have attached the 
decently-commented bash source for your amusement!  It seems to work pretty 
well, though admittedly a c implementation would be much better.  For 
convenience, I gave it a .txt extention and removed #!/bin/bash from the top 
(so email clients will treat it as plain text).

It would be fun to continue development of this tool and rewrite it in c, but 
the truth is that I've already fulfilled my personal need for the tool.  
However, if you folks at gnu think it might be useful to others, I would love 
to continue work on this project, which would be my first c contribution to 
the community.  In case it's of any relevance, I'd be happy to release it 
under any version of the GPL, and/or simply donate it to the FSF.

Of course, this may have been tried and rejected dozens of times in the past.  
I don't really know.  In any case, I hope you'll get back to me and tell me 
what you think.

Thanks for your time!
~David.

rln.txt
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