Bug#338976: [Pbuilder-maint] Bug#338976: readlink -f/-e

[Junichi Uekawa]

clone 338976 -1
retitle -1 readlink -f/-e
reopen -1
thanks

Hi,

> So -e argument should be fine here. If $A doesn't exist we don't need to
> do the mv/cp/rm because of hardlinks.

I agree that semantically, it should be '-e'.


[23:10:57]dancer64:tmp> LC_ALL=C LANG=C ls -l a b c
ls: a: No such file or directory
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dancer dancer 1 Dec  5 23:10 b -> a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dancer dancer 1 Dec  5 23:10 c -> b
[23:11:05]dancer64:tmp> readlink -f c ; echo $?
/tmp/a
0
[23:11:09]dancer64:tmp> readlink -e c ; echo $?
1


regards,
	junichi
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