On 24/05/2006, at 11:42 AM, Sam Lawrance wrote:
On 24/05/2006, at 1:21 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried the 'ln -s' command in bothe 4.3 & 4.7 in a situation
where it should fail and it did, but it still had a return/exit
code of 0 , I think it should have been nonzero. I tried 'ln -s
a b' where the file b existed (and was a directory) and I
wanted to create the file named a also pointing to it. The
correct form was 'ln -s b a'.
See the synopsis in the manpage for 'ln'. It exited nonzero
because you successfully put a symlink under the directory 'b',
pointing to 'a'.
oddie:~ sam$ mkdir b
oddie:~ sam$ ln -s a b
oddie:~ sam$ ls -l b
total 8
lrwxr-xr-x 1 sam sam 1 May 24 11:42 a -> a
Oops, I meant: "it exited with zero status because ..."
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