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Re: Would like a way to silent ln "warning: making a hard link to a symb
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Would like a way to silent ln "warning: making a hard link to a symbolic link is not portable" |
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18 Jun 2003 00:07:36 -0700 |
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address@hidden writes:
> I have found a linux-specific use for this in my boot scripts, and would
> like to be able to see other errors from ln without cluttering up the
> boot process with this one.
How about if we just remove the warning instead? It annoys me too.
I often use hard links to symlinks. (I know they're not portable,
so I don't need a warning. :-)
Solaris 'ln' doesn't warn in this case, and I think it's reasonable
not to warn by default. There are lots of nonportable things in the
GNU core utilities, so why warn about this usage in particular?