Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 17:36:59 -0500 From: Anber Rybar <vile@usmo.com> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ln -s Message-ID: <19980405173659.47190@atrophy.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980406104604.6233A-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz>; from Jonathan Chen on Mon, Apr 06, 1998 at 10:49:27AM %2B1200 References: <19980405161205.17107@atrophy.dyn.ml.org> <Pine.SGI.3.96.980406104604.6233A-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz>
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Thus spake Jonathan Chen (jonc@pinnacle.co.nz): > 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: Yes, I discovered my err shortly after sending that message. It was that when running ls and rm I was using bash-2.0 filename <TAB> completion. This, unfortunatly, placed a / at the end of the soft link, forcing it to be handled as a directory. -- ( "Lay my hands on heaven and the moon and the sun and the stars." -Trent R. ) ( vile@usmo.com * Prime Minister, The Yalta Underground * I am sanctified ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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