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bug#9896: acknowledged by developer (Re: bug#9896: ln man page ambiguity
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Voelker, Bernhard |
Subject: |
bug#9896: acknowledged by developer (Re: bug#9896: ln man page ambiguity) |
Date: |
Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:53:51 +0100 |
Paul Eggert wrote:
+ -n, --no-dereference treat LINK_NAME as a normal file if\n\
+ it is a symbolic link to a directory\n\
IMHO that's wrong.
ln also creates a hardlink of a symlink if that points to a file:
$ touch f
$ ln -s f flink
$ ln -n flink flink-n
$ ls -li
total 0
192387 -rw-r----- 1 ecs ecs 0 2011-11-21 08:50 f
192388 lrwxrwxrwx 2 ecs ecs 1 2011-11-21 08:51 flink -> f
192388 lrwxrwxrwx 2 ecs ecs 1 2011-11-21 08:51 flink-n -> f
Have a nice day,
Berny
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- bug#9896: acknowledged by developer (Re: bug#9896: ln man page ambiguity), Paul Eggert, 2011/11/20
- bug#9896: acknowledged by developer (Re: bug#9896: ln man page ambiguity), Jim Meyering, 2011/11/20
- bug#9896: acknowledged by developer (Re: bug#9896: ln man page ambiguity), Paul Eggert, 2011/11/20
- bug#9896: acknowledged by developer (Re: bug#9896: ln man page ambiguity), Jim Meyering, 2011/11/21
- bug#9896: acknowledged by developer (Re: bug#9896: ln man page ambiguity),
Voelker, Bernhard <=
- bug#9896: acknowledged by developer (Re: bug#9896: ln man page ambiguity), Bob Proulx, 2011/11/20