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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.

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Andrey A. Chernov
http://ache.pp.ru/

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