[buug] ln -sf bug

[johnd]

the man page says -fis supposed to remove existing destination files.

to me it seems that it doesn't

On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 02:10:51PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 01:48:50PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote:
> 
> > Note the last result.  There's now a new link *inside* the directory
> > pointed to by the old link!
> 
> Followup to my own post: I just tried the same thing on FreeBSD, and
> got the same results, so apparently the behavior is considered correct
> by more than one -dev team.
> 
> Now that I think about it, it is consistent with the behavior of cp
> and mv.  So...maybe it doesn't violate the principle of least surprise
> as much as I originally thought.
> 
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