From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 03:31:59 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (decode_switches): Correct typo in error message:
X-Git-Tag: TEXTUTILS-1_18a~28
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ec0f2c34d31c932700da58d1c7b26d6a2fd8819f;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(decode_switches): Correct typo in error message:
enironment -> environment.  From Santiago Vila Doncel
<sanvila@unex.es>.
---

diff --git a/src/ln.c b/src/ln.c
index b24501e36c..e36a3a5375 100644
--- a/src/ln.c
+++ b/src/ln.c
@@ -165,7 +165,13 @@ do_link (const char *source, const char *dest)
       && lstat_status == 0
       && (!symlink || stat (source, &source_stats) == 0)
       && source_stats.st_dev == dest_stats.st_dev
-      && source_stats.st_ino == dest_stats.st_ino)
+      && source_stats.st_ino == dest_stats.st_ino
+      /* The following is an attempt to detect reliably whether
+	 removing DEST will also remove SOURCE.  It is defeated
+	 by an invocation like `ln -f foo ./foo' when foo has more
+	 than one hard link.  FIXME: if anyone can tell me how to
+	 do this better (yet still reliably), please do.  */
+      && (source_stats.st_nlink == 1 || STREQ (source, dest)))
     {
       error (0, 0, _("`%s' and `%s' are the same file"), source, dest);
       return 1;