Re: symlink weirdness

[Roger Dahl]

Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote in message 
news:<barmar-5A4EDA.23452513092004@comcast.dca.giganews.com>...

> BTW, why are you asking about this in GNU newsgroups?  This behavior is 
> in the Unix and Linux kernel (it's the symlink() system call), not the 
> GNU utilities.  And I expect it's required by POSIX, so it would not be 
> appropriate for the ln utility to do something different.

Barry,

Since I'm using the GNU versions of these utilities, I thought this
would be a good place to discuss these issues.

Roger