Jim Meyering wrote: > Does anyone think it's worth adding an option to enable > (or even disable) the warning?
I can just see it now, '-Wall' for all of the utilities. :-) Seriously I did not even know you could make a hard link of a symlink until this thread and had never needed to do so before. I just tested both HP-UX and AIX and both silently create a copy of the contents of the source file instead of creating a hard link and both return success. So it works like 'cp' there. I agree. There are a lot of non-portable features and options and if there are not warnings for using non-portable options then it is inconsistent to warn for non-portable features too. Unless perhaps POSIXLY_CORRECT is set or some other filter I don't think there should be a warning. But I don't see where POSIX requires a warning here so using that for that purpose doesn't make sense either. So I would leave the warning off entirely for this feature. Just my thoughts on this... Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
