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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2003-10-15 07:40:52 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2003-10-15 07:40:52 +0000 |
| commit | 38f68e78aefd45e1cffa9395aefeca95962816d5 (patch) | |
| tree | c54d1cf8294bf7019aff28bfb8c0aeaa1fff4f8f /src/ln.c | |
| parent | 0eab16782da00f8791ee896c72ba4a687a46a209 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-38f68e78aefd45e1cffa9395aefeca95962816d5.tar.xz | |
(usage): Clarify that --directory, -d, -F probably won't
work even for superuser. Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/ln.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/ln.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -111,7 +111,10 @@ static int remove_existing_files; /* If nonzero, list each file as it is moved. */ static int verbose; -/* If nonzero, allow the superuser to make hard links to directories. */ +/* If nonzero, allow the superuser to *attempt* to make hard links + to directories. However, it appears that this option is not useful + in practice, since even the superuser is prohibited from hard-linking + directories on most (all?) existing systems. */ static int hard_dir_link; /* If nonzero, and the specified destination is a symbolic link to a @@ -360,7 +363,9 @@ Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.\n\ fputs (_("\ --backup[=CONTROL] make a backup of each existing destination file\n\ -b like --backup but does not accept an argument\n\ - -d, -F, --directory hard link directories (super-user only)\n\ + -d, -F, --directory allow the superuser to attempt to hard link\n\ + directories (note: will probably fail due to\n\ + system restrictions, even for the superuser)\n\ -f, --force remove existing destination files\n\ "), stdout); fputs (_("\ |