From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 10:31:55 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (do_link): If ln is invoked with --interactive (-i),
X-Git-Tag: v5.90~352
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b5e741091df258fe2487853b047891e11383896d;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(do_link): If ln is invoked with --interactive (-i),
encounters an existing destination file, and gets an affirmative
response, then first try to unlink the destination file rather
than simply failing.  Suggestion from Karl Berry.
---

diff --git a/src/ln.c b/src/ln.c
index 9c370e4965..5efb1d4556 100644
--- a/src/ln.c
+++ b/src/ln.c
@@ -244,6 +244,7 @@ do_link (const char *source, const char *dest, bool dest_is_dir)
 	  fprintf (stderr, _("%s: replace %s? "), program_name, quote (dest));
 	  if (!yesno ())
 	    return true;
+	  remove_existing_files = true;
 	}
 
       if (backup_type != no_backups)