> This is *WRONG*, it will also return 0 if /tmp is not a symlink. Wow, my bad, sorry for the noise. Should not have really mixed C and shell code in my head.
> (Also, use test -h instead of test -L for symlinks, cf. the > GNU autoconf texinfo manual, *Limitations of Builtins::) > > What about this instead: > > if test -h /tmp; then > # symbolic link > # will be created by mount_tmp if it does not exist > test -d /tmp || return 0 > # but we’ll clean it if it does > fi Indeed your version is better. (Although as a minor nitpick bootclean.sh uses [ and -L in other places, so it will look inconsistent)
