On Jan 23, 3:11am, campbell+netbsd-source-change...@mumble.net (Taylor R Campbell) wrote: -- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/share/mk
| 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... Yes perhaps that will work. christos
