> If you need a single (unraceable) test, that can often be achieved by > attempting to make a link to the target filename, as link(2) and > hence ln(1) without -f will fail if the target name exists.
Yes, but it requires that you're running as a user which can write to the target filesystem, and, if the target doesn't exist, it will create it. For some purposes, stat -L might help, though in a small test I just did that printed data for the link when applied to an existing link whose target is nonexistent. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
