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bug#28927: ln -fs dir name doesn't force


From: Assaf Gordon
Subject: bug#28927: ln -fs dir name doesn't force
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 19:31:07 -0600
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tags 28927 notabug
close 28927
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 2017-10-21 12:53 p.m., Andreas Schwab wrote:
On Okt 21 2017, "Sven C. Dack" <address@hidden> wrote:

The link should have been set to "bar" with the "-f" or "--force" option,
shouldn't it?

The file baz/bar has been overwritten.  You need to use -n if you want
to overwrite a link to a directory.


Given the above, and no further comments in a year,
I'm closing this bug.

-assaf






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