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. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
