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Re: minor bug fix for ln
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: minor bug fix for ln |
Date: |
02 Jul 2001 08:47:32 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.090003 (Oort Gnus v0.03) Emacs/21.0.104 |
Thanks a lot.
That was indeed a bug.
I've applied your patch for the next release.
Frederik Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
| Not quite sure what's the correct way to submit a bug fix but...
|
| Here is a patch for src/ln.c, fileutils 4.1:
|
| 227c227
| < && (backup_type == none || !symlink)
| ---
| > && (backup_type == none || !symbolic_link)
|
| Here is the behavior of ln before the patch:
|
| $ > k
| $ ./ln -f --backup k k
| ./ln: creating hard link `k' to `k': No such file or directory
|
| and after the patch:
|
| $ ./ln -f --backup k k
| ./ln: `k' and `k' are the same file