Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Jan 1998 12:58:35 +0000 (GMT) | From | Matthew Kirkwood <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.76: weird behavior of "ln -sf dir link" |
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On 17 Jan 1998, Vladimir Volovich wrote:
> I've found a weird behavior of creating a symbolic links to > directories. If the link to directory already exists, then "ln -sf" > will not be able to change the link:
Have a look inside the directory which "link" already points to.
Your (dangling) symlink will be in there...
(Yes, it gets me everytime I make a symlink to a new kernel in /usr/src, too :)
Matthew.
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