test for hard links always fail with pdksh

[Cyrille Lefevre]

Christopher Faylor a écrit :
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 01:05:06PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Feb 25 01:30, Paul McFerrin wrote:
>>> A new wrinkle with hard links.  If you are testing for them in
>>> pdksh, they will always fail.  I.E.:
>>>
>>>    if test -L links/$filename.$inumb
>>>    then :
>>>    else
>>>       ln $filename $filename.$inumb
>>>    fi
>>>
>>> The above test will always fail and thus will always attempt to
>>> re-create the hard link.
>> $ man test
>>
>> test -L tests for symbolic links, not for hardlinks.
> 
> So both the program and the documentation are wrong???  Who'd have thought it?

!!!

man ksh

        test expression
        [ expression ]
                -h file              file is a symbolic link.
                -L file              file is a symbolic link.

Regards,

Cyrille Lefevre
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