On 11/20/11 23:53, Voelker, Bernhard wrote: > > Paul Eggert wrote: > + -n, --no-dereference treat LINK_NAME as a normal file if\n\ > + it is a symbolic link to a directory\n\ > > IMHO that's wrong. > > ln also creates a hardlink of a symlink if that points to a file: > > $ touch f > $ ln -s f flink > $ ln -n flink flink-n
You're right about ln's behavior, but the proposed wording is not incorrect. In the example, flink-n is not a symbolic link to a directory, so the documentation says that "ln -n flink flink-n" should behave like ordinary "ln flink flink-n", which is what happens. In this respect, the proposed wording is no better or worse than the current wording. Perhaps the wording could be further improved. To get things moving in the meantime I committed the proposed wording.
