On 07/12/2018 02:16 AM, L A Walsh wrote: > > I'm asking why does 'ln' bother to tell the user that they are > wrong and do nothing useful? Why not just go ahead and create a symlink
The user didn't ask for a symlink, and it sounds unwise for ln to be second-guessing that. Sometimes, reporting an error and exiting is a better thing to do.
