"Robert Millan [ackstorm]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I haven't checked POSIX though, but if this is actualy a requirement > maybe a POSIX_ME_HARDER hack would make sense here?
POSIX makes no requirement. Other implementations are all over the map here, so I suppose we can do what is more convenient. On Solaris 10, /usr/ucb/install breaks the destination link, and /usr/sbin/install does not break it. Traditionally, coreutils has tried to be BSD-compatible, which argues for the current behavior. Has BSD behavior changed? (I took a quick look at the FreeBSD source code for what it does, and quickly became bewildered. :-) _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
