Re: 2.0.33: "ln -sf" reacts strange on directories

Harald Koenig (koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
Wed, 15 Apr 1998 18:28:58 +0200


On Apr 15, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Harald Koenig <koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
>
> |> I tried to convice them for quite a while that this was a _bad_ change
> |> to make `ln' behave incompatiblely to other non-GNU UN*X systems (where
> |> ln behaves as `-n' is set by default) but they still were/are happy
> |> about that move:(
>
> Just checked on SunOS 4.1.3, and ln -f -s behaves like GNU ln, and there
> is no way to change that.

interesting.
I think I stopped with SunOS 4.1.1 or 4.1.2 (and ULTRIX 4.2 and...).
maybe that's posixly broken^H^H^H^H^H^Hcorrect now ?!

Harald

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