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From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
To: Anber Rybar <vile@usmo.com>
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Subject: Re: ln -s
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On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Anber Rybar wrote:

[snip]
> The copy of ln that ships with FreeBSD will make a soft link to a directory a
> hard link.  I want to know why.

No it doesn't; as the following demonstrates most clearly:

    10:44am> uname -a
    FreeBSD kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz 2.2.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE #0: Mon Feb  2 11:47:50 NZDT 1998     root@kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz:/usr/src/sys/compile/KAKAPO  i386
    10:44am> mkdir a
    10:44am> ls
    a/
    10:44am> ln a b
    ln: a: Is a directory
    10:44am> ln -s a b
    10:44am> ls
    a/ b>
    10:44am> rm b
    10:44am> ls
    a/

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