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Re: New symlinks
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:02:06AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>> I've finally taken the time to play with the new symlinks. I like them!
>>
>> However, I noticed that when I do this:
>>
>> ln -s bar foo
>> cat foo.lnk
>>
>> I get the contents of bar.
>>
>> Should I? Or should I get a "file not found"? Or should I get
>> the contents of foo?
>>
>
>I would expect "file not found". I had reported and Corinna made
>changes but I haven't had the time to test them something similar. I
>would also expect that `ln -s bar foo.lnk' to physically produce
>foo.lnk.lnk.
Ditto.
cgf
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