ln -f, POSIX requirements

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Thu Aug 2 07:25:40 AEST 1990


In article <14020102 at hpisod2.HP.COM> decot at hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot) writes:
>Cp and mv were changed in various other ways as well, so that none of
>them are consistent with each other or ln in their default behavior
>with respect to existing files.

Oh, for Christ's sake!  If 1003.2 isn't going to standardize existing
practice, they could at least try to avoid conflicting with it!



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