Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 19:37:58 -0800 (PST) From: mark thompson <thompson@tgsoft.com> To: hackers@freebsd.com Subject: ln -s -f does unlink of dir Message-ID: <199702210337.TAA00182@squirrel.tgsoft.com>
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On my 2.1.6 system i had a directory /usr/src/sys. Elsewhere in the filesystem i stupidly did a ln -s -f /u/FreeBSD/src/* /usr/src. To my immense surprise, ln unlinked /usr/src/sys! fsck'ing /usr proved that this was true. I suppose everybody but me knew about that, though? -mark
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