On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 07:07:01AM +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 06:44:29PM -0500, Amit Kulkarni wrote:
> > shouldn't this order be flipped?
> >
>
> the example does what its description says. why do you think it should
> be reversed?
because people are often confused by symlinks? I always tell the
confused: the order is the same as cp(1): the first argument needs to
exits, the second one is created.
-Otto
>
> jmc
>
> > Index: ln.1
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvs/src/bin/ln/ln.1,v
> > retrieving revision 1.29
> > diff -u -p -r1.29 ln.1
> > --- ln.1 2 Mar 2011 07:47:21 -0000 1.29
> > +++ ln.1 19 Sep 2012 23:27:04 -0000
> > @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ Create a symbolic link named
> > and point it to
> > .Pa /var/www :
> > .Pp
> > -.Dl # ln -s /var/www /home/www
> > +.Dl # ln -s /home/www /var/www
> > .Pp
> > Hard link
> > .Pa /usr/local/bin/fooprog
