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From: Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: standards/41576: POSIX compliance of ln(1)
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The following reply was made to PR standards/41576; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: standards/41576: POSIX compliance of ln(1)
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 22:38:24 +1000

 On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 02:15:56PM +0200, Lukas Ertl wrote:
 
 > On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Tim Robbins wrote:
 > 
 > > On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 01:05:10PM +0200, Lukas Ertl wrote:
 > >
 > > > cd /tmp
 > > > mkdir foo bar
 > > > ln -s foo bla     ### now /tmp/bla symlinks to /tmp/foo
 > > > ln -sf bar bla    ### replace /tmp/bla to point to /tmp/bar, doesn't work
 > >
 > > Do you know of any systems this `works' on? /bin/ln and /usr/xpg4/bin/ln
 > > don't behave this way on Solaris, either.
 > 
 > On AIX it does.
 
 Ok, I've changed the manual page to claim conformance to 1003.2-1992
 instead of 1003.1-2001. I'm not sure whether the bug is actually in
 FreeBSD or AIX - the wording of the standard is quite subtle.
 
 I'll leave this PR open so that someone who is certain of the meaning
 can either restore the 1003.1-2001 conformance claim or correct the
 FreeBSD implementation.
 
 
 Tim

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