Re: Minutes of the August 28th 2007 teleconference

[Eric Blake]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

According to Andrew Josey on 8/29/2007 12:16 AM:
> Austin Group Minutes of the 28th August 2007 Teleconference Austin-379 Page 1 
> of 1
> XCU ERN 165 mv Accept
> 
> Send down the interpretations track.
> The standard is clear, the standard is wrong , concerns
> are being forwarded to the sponsor.
> 
> XCU ERN 166 mv Accept as marked below
> 
> Send down the interpretations track.
> The standard is ambiguous, no conformance distinctions can be 
> made about different implementations , concerns
> are being forwarded to the sponsor.

We should consider editing both of these interpretations to also apply to
ln.  The coreutils list noted, just this month, that
 'ln a/f b/f c && rm -Rf a b'
risks losing user data; and 'ln a /' should not attempt to create '//a'.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin)
Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFG1gV+84KuGfSFAYARAiqoAKC5z3Zk3q/89pp1kPRHV4D5D6OHpACgqZeo
Jy+ZY/4PcOP4CzgCuX/PaQ4=
=p9ry
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----