> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoff Clare [mailto:g...@opengroup.org]
> Sent: Monday, November 07, 2016 5:20 PM
> To: austin-group-l@opengroup.org
> Subject: Re: [1003.1(2013)/Issue7+TC1 0001016]: race condition with set
> -C
> > That seems to be in contradiction with it calling the link() system
> > call.
> >
> > I suspect that text is there for attempts to call "link" on a
> > directory.
>
> If that were the case, I would have expected it to be worded like
> Joerg's man page quote. Instead it just says "A user may need
> appropriate privileges to invoke the link utility."
When do you call link(1) in lieu of ln(1)?
BTW: the rationale for ln says:
This volume of POSIX.1-2008 does not allow the ln utility
to unlink existing destination paths by default for the
following reasons:
The ln utility has historically been used to provide locking for
shell applications, a usage that is incompatible with ln unlinking
the destination path by default. There was no corresponding
technical advantage to adding this functionality.
