ln -f, POSIX requirements

Dave Decot decot at hpisod2.HP.COM
Fri Aug 3 13:58:10 AEST 1990


> This has changed dramatically in Draft 10:
> 
  ...
>    The default is to ask.

Oops, this point is not true (my mistake).  Draft 10 ln never asks
permission to remove existing files (it just fails to make the link),
and has no option to request that behavior.

Sorry for any (added) confusion.

Dave Decot



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