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From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT usa DOT net>
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:03:49 -0500
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Subject: Re: symlink question
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> Let me change question. Should this behavior continue to be 
> supported?

I have a feeling Eli will say 'yes, it should'. So as an alternative, I 
propose that ln.c in filutils be modified so that if the call to make a soft 
link fails, then try to make a hard link. Then if the call to make a hard 
link fails, go ahead and print the error message.  That way, 'ln -s' will 
work in those cases in which Unixy shell scripts (like configure) expect 
it to.

Mark

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