Lars Stoltenow kirjoitti: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:27:44PM +0300, Hannu Savolainen wrote: > >> Ok. Applied. However I didn't do the change that replaced "rm -f x;ln -s >> y x" by "rm -sf". All operating systems still don't support "ln -f" >> properly. >> > > POSIX says: > The following option shall be supported: > -f Force existing destination pathnames to be removed to allow the > link. > > It shouldn't be the software that has to fix obvious operating system bugs. > > There are special situations where ln -sf doesn't work with device files even the operating system supports -f. There are often problems under Solaris. They are related with the way how devfs and demand driver loading work under Solaris.
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