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bug#52115: Suggestion: LN command should swap TARGET and LINK_NAME if LI


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: bug#52115: Suggestion: LN command should swap TARGET and LINK_NAME if LINK_NAME already exists
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 10:39:45 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux)

On Nov 29 2021, Bob Proulx wrote:

> The more I think about it the more I think it should say CONTENT
> rather than either TARGET or SOURCE.  Because it is actually setting
> the content of the symbolic link.

A hard link doesn't have content.

Andreas.

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