On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Eric Blake wrote:

$ ln -vf a/f b/f c
`c/f' => `a/f'
`c/f' => `b/f'
$ cat c/f
2

Oops - we overwrote the just-created c/f with a link to b/f.

But you told it to, with -f. Doesn't POSIX require this to succeed?


Cheers,
Phil


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