On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 05:26:02PM +0200, Jean-Louis Debert wrote:
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>
> Please note that the first ln command seems to have been ignored (linux
> still
> points linux-2.2.9, although 1) I had the -f modifier, and 2) I was root
> (since
> I was working in the kernel source tree) so I should have permissions.
>
> This is on a newly installed Mandrake 6.0 on a clean partition.
> I looked at the man page for ln and there it says that the -f modifier
> "will remove existing targets" whatever that means. It also says that
> this option is equivalent to --force and here the name seems
> self-explanatory.
> This is precisely in _this_ sense that I wanted to use the option, i.e.
> make the link point to whatever I order it to, whether or not it was
> already pointing somewhere else ...
>
> I _think_ that this is the first time that I catch this kind of
> behaviour,
> i.e. in previous linux distributions I'm pretty sure that it _did_
> behave
> as I would like it to.
> So what has changed ??? the ln binary ??? I don't believe it, but even
> so,
> _why_ ? otherwise it has to be either the kernel ext2 code (which at the
> time
> was the one from Mandrake) or possibly the glibc 2.1 ???
>
>
> Would anybody care to comment ?
>
> Thanks anyway.
>
> --
> Jean-Louis Debert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 74 Annemasse France
> old Linux fan
Hey,
this is odd! Looks like there are only certain directories involved, because ln
-sf works elsewhere without a glitch (even in /boot).
Can't think of any conceivable reason, though...
tom
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