michael%liz.cs.mun.ca@MITVMA.MIT.EDU (Mike Rendell) (02/26/90)
The diffs I sent regarding linking to directories had two problems * you could not make a symlink to a directory * when it said `%s is a directory' it printed the wrong name out (should have printed the `old' name instead of the `new') So, here are diffs for my diffs... *** /tmp/,RCSt1006641 Mon Feb 26 16:14:00 1990 --- ln.c Mon Feb 26 16:10:27 1990 *************** *** 185,197 **** if (verbose) printf (" %s -> %s\n", old, new); ! if (isdir(old)) { /* On bsd systems -f means links to directories are ok, on sysV it means try to force the link by unlinking the target first. Go with the sysV method - /etc/link, should be used to link directories. */ ! fprintf (stderr, "%s: %s is a directory\n", program, new); return 1; } else if (force) --- 185,197 ---- if (verbose) printf (" %s -> %s\n", old, new); ! if (!symbolic_link && isdir(old)) { /* On bsd systems -f means links to directories are ok, on sysV it means try to force the link by unlinking the target first. Go with the sysV method - /etc/link, should be used to link directories. */ ! fprintf (stderr, "%s: %s is a directory\n", program, old); return 1; } else if (force) -- Mike Rendell Department of Computer Science michael@garfield.cs.mun.ca Memorial University of Newfoundland uunet!garfield!michael St. John's, Nfld., Canada (709) 737-4550 A1C 5S7