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Re: idiosyncratic "ln" not making hard links



Elizabeth Barham <soggytrousers@yahoo.com> [2002-09-25 10:33:15 -0500]:
> > | :~$ ln --version
> > | ln (fileutils) 4.1
> Any idea of what might be causing ln not to work correctly on my
> system?

In addition to 'strace ln k y' use the -v option to have it verbosely
say what it is doing.

  rm -rf /tmp/myworkspace  # makes sure you start with a clean area
  mkdir /tmp/myworkspace
  cd /tmp/myworkspace
  touch k
  ln -v k y

My guess is that there is a previous symlink at y pointing back to k.

Bob

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