Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:54:34 -0800 From: Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: test(1) unexpected result (to me) Message-ID: <1105491274.67086.2.camel@server.mcneil.com> In-Reply-To: <41E47226.8050001@elischer.org> References: <41E47226.8050001@elischer.org>
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--=-tv0lCrwrHrdz8oe0cldC Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 16:41 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > # ls -l /sys > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 11 Sep 4 22:03 /sys -> usr/src/sys > # if [ /sys -ef /usr/src/sys ] > > then > > echo same > > else > > echo no > > fi > no >=20 >=20 > I would have expected the result "same" >=20 > comments? By "same file" they mean each references the same inode. Since this is a symlink, the files do not refer to the same file. You can see that if it were a hard link the result would be "same" echoed. Cheers, Sean --=-tv0lCrwrHrdz8oe0cldC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBB5HVKyQsGN30uGE4RArsUAJ9GGwiJyAVy1Nm8ol1fSzL31L2ShwCeOXVD aYRNG1m0RUS1kH3LqgE6RIE= =eJlX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-tv0lCrwrHrdz8oe0cldC--
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