On 10/20/2012 12:22 PM, Lawrence Mayer wrote: > Ln can't hard link into named directory. > > e.g. > > Ln ... TARGET... DIRECTORY (3rd form) > > and > > ln ... -t DIRECTORY TARGET... (4th form) > > both fail when DIRECTORY is named (but appear to work when DIRECTORY = '.' > (current directory)) > > returning error message > > 'ln: Cannot create a file when that file already exists.' when TARGET is > named file > > or > > 'ln: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.' when > TARGET is '*' (wildcard).
Please show us the actual command line you typed, rather than a description of it; even better, starting from an empty directory, show us a sequence of mkdir and touch commands that will get us into the same state to reproduce the message you are complaining about. However, I suspect that this is not a bug in ln, but a misunderstanding on your part. Cygwin, like Linux, prohibits the creation of hard links to a directory, and POSIX permits this restriction. Just because Solaris chose to allow hard links to a directory does not make it a good idea. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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