Re: [PATCH] fancy memory detection for 2.3.99pre6

Borislav Deianov (borislav@lix.polytechnique.fr)
Sat, 29 Apr 2000 21:55:30 +0200


In article <8efart$ipu@pell.pell.portland.or.us> you wrote:
> what is -n? It's not an option on the version of gnu ln I've got

| NAME
| ln - make links between files
|
| SYNOPSIS
| ln [OPTION]... TARGET [LINK_NAME]
| ln [OPTION]... TARGET... DIRECTORY
|
| ...
| -n, --no-dereference
| treat destination that is a symlink to a directory as if
| it were a normal file

If you do ln -s a b and b is currently a symlink to a directory c, you
get a symlink called a in c pointing to itself; ln -nsf will replace b
with a symlink to a.

Regards,
Borislav

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