Re: CVS commit: src/share/mk

[Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi%gmail.com@localhost>]

I wonder if "ln -sfh" is portable?

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Christos Zoulas 
<christos%zoulas.com@localhost> wrote:
> On Jan 23,  3:11am, campbell+netbsd-source-changes-d%mumble.net@localhost 
> (Taylor R Campbell) wrote:
> -- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/share/mk
>
> |    Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 13:15:44 -0500
> |    From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
> |
> |    On Jan 22,  7:29am, matt%3am-software.com@localhost (Matt Thomas) wrote:
> |    -- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/share/mk
> |
> |    | I always wondered why we don't use ln -sf
> |    | and avoid the race.
> |
> |    That does not work because if the destnation is a directory it will
> |    try to link in the destination directory... (I tried). This is why
> |    I suggested that it needs to be done differently.
> |
> | ln -sfh?
> |
> | As an aside, it would be nice if there were an easy way to create a
> | symlink at a temporary location and rename it over the permanent one.
> | `ln -sfh' will unlink instead, and mv(1) is too smart for its own good
> | about directories to be able to rename over a symlink reliably...
>
>
> Yes perhaps that will work.
>
> christos