Re: -e test for file exists problem with dangling symlinks

2005-02-22 Thread Chet Ramey
John R. Vanderpool wrote: this will probably be considered a non-bug (because the same behavior exists in bash, ksh, pdksh, irix, and gnu coreutils!) but i'ld at least like to hear an explanation if possible. -e file exists test fails if file is a dangling symlink, this to me does not seem like the

-e test for file exists problem with dangling symlinks

2005-02-22 Thread John R. Vanderpool
this will probably be considered a non-bug (because the same behavior exists in bash, ksh, pdksh, irix, and gnu coreutils!) but i'ld at least like to hear an explanation if possible. -e file exists test fails if file is a dangling symlink, this to me does not seem like the correct behavior, the te