Jeremy Byron wrote:
Andrew Benton wrote:
<snip>
No, the creation of the symlinks failed because there were already files
of those names in existence. Creating a symlink won't erase a file or
folder unless you use -f (force).
He did use -f (as per instructions in the book).
I understand that using -f throughout the book could make the
instructions simpler in the edge case where someone has to fix a gimped
symlink, but it's not exactly a safe default. It's like having 'rm'
aliased to 'rm -rf' on the root account by default. If people follow
the instructions properly, there should be no reason to force creation
of a symlink, right?
Jeremy.
Thanks,
I didn't realise the book used -f by default. That seems quite dangerous
to me. I've altered the svn version of the book.
Andy
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