Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 13:15:44 -0500 From: chris...@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
On Jan 22, 7:29am, m...@3am-software.com (Matt Thomas) wrote: -- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/share/mk | I always wondered why we don't use ln -sf | and avoid the race. That does not work because if the destnation is a directory it will try to link in the destination directory... (I tried). This is why I suggested that it needs to be done differently. ln -sfh? As an aside, it would be nice if there were an easy way to create a symlink at a temporary location and rename it over the permanent one. `ln -sfh' will unlink instead, and mv(1) is too smart for its own good about directories to be able to rename over a symlink reliably...