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Re: ln documentation clarification
From: |
Pádraig Brady |
Subject: |
Re: ln documentation clarification |
Date: |
Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:54:39 +0100 |
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Sittser, Steven wrote:
> I would like to suggest that you add a clarification to your
> documentation of ln:
>
> In the invocation "ln [option]... target linkname", the target parameter
> is interpreted very differently depending on whether or not the "-s"
> option is present. If it is not, then target is, as with most file
> parameters to most Unix commands, relative to the current directory (if
> it is a relative path). But, if the "-s" parameter is present, then
> target is instead relative to the directory that linkname is in.
> The man page for ln makes no mention of this. I think it should. (The
> man page is a bit old - it says "ln 5.3.0, March 2005", and is in
> Cygwin.)
I think this was fixed up in Feb 2009:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commit;h=022889a
cheers,
Pádraig.