[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote this message on Wed, May 24, 2006 at 01:21 +0000:
> I tried the 'ln -s' command in bothe 4.3 & 4.7 in a situation where it
> should fail and it did, but it still had a return/exit code of 0 , I think
> it should have been nonzero. I tried 'ln -s a b' where the file b
> existed (and was a directory) and I wanted to create the file named a also
> pointing to it. The correct form was 'ln -s b a'.
>
> FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386
>
> FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #0: Wed Oct 9 15:08:34 GMT 2002
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
Hmm... I just tried this and I didn't see this behavior on 4.7-R:
-bash-2.05b$ ln -s a z
ln: z: File exists
-bash-2.05b$ echo $?
1
-bash-2.05b$ ln -s z a
-bash-2.05b$ echo $?
0
-bash-2.05b$ uname -a
FreeBSD gate.funkthat.com 4.7-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #5: Tue Sep 9
02:05:39 PDT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/gate i386
Looks like the EEXIST is returning non-zero...
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