From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 06:42:35 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (do_link): Test the boolean symbolic_link, not the function, symlink.
X-Git-Tag: CPPI-1_10~36
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/index.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cd88376b05b3609787d9323ff944b0ce6a3273c8;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(do_link): Test the boolean symbolic_link, not the function, symlink.
Patch by Frederik Eaton.
---

diff --git a/src/ln.c b/src/ln.c
index c7345a47a0..ec85c81003 100644
--- a/src/ln.c
+++ b/src/ln.c
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ do_link (const char *source, const char *dest)
 	 equivalent: `ln -f k k' (with or without --backup) to get
 	 beyond this point, because the error message you'd get is
 	 misleading.  */
-      && (backup_type == none || !symlink)
+      && (backup_type == none || !symbolic_link)
       && (!symbolic_link || stat (source, &source_stats) == 0)
       && source_stats.st_dev == dest_stats.st_dev
       && source_stats.st_ino == dest_stats.st_ino