Re: How to overwrite a symbolic link?

[Marc Herbert]

Le 06/05/2010 15:53, Peng Yu a écrit :
> Suppose that I have a symbolic link link1 pointing to file1. When I
> write to link1, I don't want file1 change. I want it to remove the
> link generated a new file and write to it.

This is a very strange question. Symbolic links are expressly designed
to fool everyone. Why are you using symbolic links if you do not want
to be fooled?

Please give more details about what you are trying to do.