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ln man page ambiguity

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Message #36 received at 9896 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Voelker, Bernhard" <bernhard.voelker <at> siemens-enterprise.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: "9896 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <9896 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>,
	Michael J Daniel <michael.j.daniel <at> comcast.net>
Subject: RE: bug#9896: acknowledged by developer (Re: bug#9896: ln man page
	ambiguity)
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:53:51 +0100

 
Paul Eggert wrote:
+  -n, --no-dereference        treat LINK_NAME as a normal file if\n\
+                                it is a symbolic link to a directory\n\

IMHO that's wrong.

ln also creates a hardlink of a symlink if that points to a file:

$ touch f
$ ln -s f flink
$ ln -n flink flink-n
$ ls -li
total 0
192387 -rw-r----- 1 ecs ecs 0 2011-11-21 08:50 f
192388 lrwxrwxrwx 2 ecs ecs 1 2011-11-21 08:51 flink -> f
192388 lrwxrwxrwx 2 ecs ecs 1 2011-11-21 08:51 flink-n -> f

Have a nice day,
Berny

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