Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 23:59:13 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at> Cc: "Tim J. Robbins" <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: standards/41576: POSIX compliance of ln(1) Message-ID: <20020819195911.GA7663@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <20020819210645.L310-100000@leelou.in.tern> References: <200208191112.g7JBCqGn086188@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020819210645.L310-100000@leelou.in.tern>
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On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 21:30:09 +0200, Lukas Ertl wrote: > 1) $ ln -sf bar bla > > and > > 2) $ ln -sf bar bla/ > > The first version should replace the symlink, the second one should create > a new symlink in the already referenced directory (as it currently happens > on FreeBSD). ln on AIX does exactly that. Of course, AIX could be > completely broken (as usual :-), but this is how I read the standard. > > I'm very interested in your opinions. Yes, bla/ is completely equivalent to bla/. while bla ins't. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message
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