[BusyBox] "ln" with three and more arguments

Erik Andersen andersen at lineo.com
Thu Jun 15 21:06:54 UTC 2000


On Thu Jun 15, 2000 at 04:52:14PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Although it is possible to specify three and more arguments after "ln" no
> sane person will do it IMHO.
> 
> I'm asking because the behavior of "busybox ln" with three arguments is
> wildly different from that of GNU ln.
> 
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>
> I believe it should be safe to drop support for multiple linking, at least
> change the check for the number of arguments and the help message and
> leave the real cleaning up for "after release"
> 

Agreed.  As a policy for implemented features, the GNU behavior is 
the Right bahavior and anything that differs (unless it differs for the
express purpose of being smaller/leaner) is a bug.

 -Erik

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