Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 13:26:59 +0100 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: "gs_stoller@juno.com" <gs_stoller@juno.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The 'ln -s' command Message-ID: <20060524122659.GA64453@walton.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: <20060523.182218.19235.1026225@webmail29.nyc.untd.com> References: <20060523.182218.19235.1026225@webmail29.nyc.untd.com>
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On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 01:21:59AM +0000, gs_stoller@juno.com wrote: > I tried the 'ln -s' command in bothe 4.3 & 4.7 in a situation > where it should fail and it did, but it still had a return/exit > code of 0 , I think it should have been nonzero. I tried 'ln -s > a b' where the file b existed (and was a directory) In this case, ln should make a link called b/a pointing to a. ln probably successfully did this and returned 0. The behaviour is documented in the ln man page I think. David.
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