-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to NEWPORT Dennis on 12/6/2007 7:54 AM: > mkdir targ > ln -s targ src > ll -rt > ln -s targ src > > ll targ/ > total 0 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 cwbspr2 wbspr2 4 Dec 6 15:50 targ -> targ > > i.e. inside the targ directory you get a targ symlink to targ. > > This surely isn't the expected behaviour. Can anyone explain this ?
Actually, it IS expected behavior, as required by POSIX. If the final argument can be resolved as a directory, then the link is created inside that directory. Or, in other words, look at ln --help | head: Usage: ln [OPTION]... [-T] TARGET LINK_NAME (1st form) or: ln [OPTION]... TARGET (2nd form) or: ln [OPTION]... TARGET... DIRECTORY (3rd form) or: ln [OPTION]... -t DIRECTORY TARGET... (4th form) In the 1st form, create a link to TARGET with the name LINK_NAME. In the 2nd form, create a link to TARGET in the current directory. In the 3rd and 4th forms, create links to each TARGET in DIRECTORY. Create hard links by default, symbolic links with --symbolic. When creating hard links, each TARGET must exist. In your case, the first attempt was of the 1st form, while the second attempt is of the 3rd form. Use -T (a GNU extension, not available in all ln implementations) to guarantee the first form. > This message and any files transmitted with it are legally privileged Please consider using a different email account when mailing to publicly archived lists, since such disclaimers are unenforceable. Some people refuse on principal to respond to such mails. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHWFag84KuGfSFAYARAvLGAJ9/Smyhv3ySvnErhFokv6U1Fz24/gCdFVW5 2tqhWf7WdYPclf3+fIWwn9Q= =R+j+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
