Re: CVS commit: src/share/mk

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Jan 23,  3:11am, campbell+netbsd-source-changes-d%mumble.net@localhost 
(Taylor R Campbell) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/share/mk

|    Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 13:15:44 -0500
|    From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
| 
|    On Jan 22,  7:29am, matt%3am-software.com@localhost (Matt Thomas) wrote:
|    -- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/share/mk
| 
|    | I always wondered why we don't use ln -sf
|    | and avoid the race.
| 
|    That does not work because if the destnation is a directory it will
|    try to link in the destination directory... (I tried). This is why
|    I suggested that it needs to be done differently.
| 
| ln -sfh?
| 
| As an aside, it would be nice if there were an easy way to create a
| symlink at a temporary location and rename it over the permanent one.
| `ln -sfh' will unlink instead, and mv(1) is too smart for its own good
| about directories to be able to rename over a symlink reliably...


Yes perhaps that will work.

christos