On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 10:07:24PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > You lose if the link is relative and the symlink is not in the > current directory.
Cogito doesn't create such links in my (limited_ experience. Why would anyone else do that? > You also lose on systems where the empty filename is synonymous with > the current directory. Well, return code from readlink should be tested there. [...] > You should remove "DEST first. Otherwise, under Linux, you'll > magically create the file the symlink points to, which may not be > what you want to do. That behavior *is* desirable in this case. Anyhow, the fact this is so complicated and getting more so makes me think it's misdirected :-( - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html