From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 11:07:53 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (do_link): Warn that making a hard link to a symbolic link is not portable.
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-4_0j-trial~58
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=224fff6a3a026124d8efb07f8b66645b8901832e;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(do_link): Warn that making a hard link to a symbolic link is not portable.
---

diff --git a/src/ln.c b/src/ln.c
index 5307d67cc0..759c450b32 100644
--- a/src/ln.c
+++ b/src/ln.c
@@ -164,6 +164,13 @@ do_link (const char *source, const char *dest)
 	  return 1;
 	}
 
+      if (S_ISLNK (source_stats.st_mode))
+	{
+	  error (0, 0, _("%s: warning: making a hard link to a symbolic link\
+ is not portable"),
+		 source);
+	}
+
       if (!hard_dir_link && S_ISDIR (source_stats.st_mode))
 	{
 	  error (0, 0, _("%s: hard link not allowed for directory"), source);