Re: link -L/-P

2009-09-25 Thread Pádraig Brady
Eric Blake wrote: According to Pádraig Brady on 9/24/2009 5:13 PM: Eric Blake wrote: + -L, --logical make hard links to symbolic link references\n\ s/references/targets/ is a bit clearer to me? I thought about that, but we already specify: ln source target as the

Re: link -L/-P

2009-09-25 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: Eric Blake ebb9 at byu.net writes: I'd like to make a test release soon. Maybe as soon as Friday. If you have something that you'd like included, please speak up. I'm nearly ready to post support for ln -P/-L, thanks to the pending addition of gnulib linkat(). That

stdbuf enhancement (was: link -L/-P)

2009-09-25 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Pádraig Brady on 9/25/2009 4:11 AM: You need to chmod a+x ln/hard-to-sym Oops. Yeah. Serves me right for testing on cygwin 1.5 (cygwin 1.7 fixed that bug, so that a script now has to be executable to run it). Also path in your

link -L/-P (was: coreutils-7.7 beta release soon)

2009-09-24 Thread Eric Blake
Eric Blake ebb9 at byu.net writes: I'd like to make a test release soon. Maybe as soon as Friday. If you have something that you'd like included, please speak up. I'm nearly ready to post support for ln -P/-L, thanks to the pending addition of gnulib linkat(). That would be nice to

Re: link -L/-P

2009-09-24 Thread Pádraig Brady
Eric Blake wrote: + -L, --logical make hard links to symbolic link references\n\ s/references/targets/ is a bit clearer to me? + -P, --physical make hard links directly to symblic links\n\ s/symblic/symbolic/ cheers, Pádraig.

Re: link -L/-P

2009-09-24 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Pádraig Brady on 9/24/2009 5:13 PM: Eric Blake wrote: + -L, --logical make hard links to symbolic link references\n\ s/references/targets/ is a bit clearer to me? I thought about that, but we already specify: ln