From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 08:40:10 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (do_link): Don't require --force when target exists and
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-3_16g~29
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a320eee15855e557ce07c3d47cb262484b139846;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(do_link): Don't require --force when target exists and
using --backup.  This changes makes ln consistent with cp and mv in
this respect.  Suggestion from Eli Zaretskii.
---

diff --git a/src/ln.c b/src/ln.c
index b7a5208a9d..6078f48d0e 100644
--- a/src/ln.c
+++ b/src/ln.c
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ do_link (const char *source, const char *dest)
 	  if (!yesno ())
 	    return 0;
 	}
-      else if (!remove_existing_files)
+      else if (!remove_existing_files && backup_type == none)
 	{
 	  error (0, 0, _("%s: File exists"), dest);
 	  return 1;