Re: ln overwrites newly created files

[Philip Rowlands]

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Eric Blake wrote:

> $ ln -vf a/f b/f c
> `c/f' => `a/f'
> `c/f' => `b/f'
> $ cat c/f
> 2
>
> Oops - we overwrote the just-created c/f with a link to b/f.

But you told it to, with -f. Doesn't POSIX require this to succeed?


Cheers,
Phil